On Friday 19 March 2004 09:43, Peter H. wrote: > Hi, > > in slackware 9.1 suddenly gnumeric-1.2.5-i686-1dl does not open. Typing > gnumeric from the command line the CPU Load and Busy indicator start > working till I do ^c to kill the pid. > > I rebooted, un-installed gnumeric, re-installed it, the same it will not > open. > > There are no error messages. ldd /usr/bin/gnumeric shows no 'not found'. > > Is there any test to find out what is going on while gnumeric tries to > open?
You can use the program 'strace' to see whats happening, it may or may not tell you directly whats wrong.
Do the following;
strace-o file.name gnumeric
After 3 or 4 seconds hit ctrl-c and take a look at, file.name. It will be a large file so you may want to start at the bottom because the chances are thats where the most important info will be, (ie the last few lines).
file.name can be just about anyname of course.
Richard's advice is a good start, except for a small typo -- it needs to read
strace -o file.name gnumeric
(a space between "strace" and "-o"). But the output may be hard to interpret, especially if the problem lies in use of a shared library. So, here are a couple of other things you might also try.
First, run "top" in an xterm, or over a remote connection, while all this is happening, and see what's going on under the hood in the way of CPU use, memory and swap use, and high-use processes. (You may already be seeing some of this, but I don't know what you mean by "the CPU Load and Busy indicator" ... my guess is that this is some X process, but one that I'm unfamiliar with.)
Second, check what shared libraries gnumeric is using ("ldd /usr/bin/gnumeric", as you did), then check the install date of each of them. See if something you did (for example, install another app recently) caused a mismatched version of one of them to be installed.
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