On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:53:36PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 09:09 AM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >I just did some security updating in 8.2, and now when I open xmms, I have > >four instances running. Not four players on the screen, but if I do "ps > >-Af| grep xmms" it reports there are 4. I noticed this because the > >info-pipe I use to tell the last 5 songs lists the same song 5 times. > > > >I'm using xmms 1.2.4. Has anybody else seen this? > > > >Todd > > Yes I've seen it. *I'm going to take a stab in the dark & pray I kill > someone <G>*. As far as I can tell, this is XMMS forking diff parts of > itself with different parts of its program running. > > Example: The skin you use may need to be a separate process when one is > switched (If I use the "random skin on play" option for example) on/off > then when its run its course (skin is loaded) the task ends. At the same > time it may be using separate processes as well for say... running some > visual plug-in, running the playlist editor, and using the ARTS daemon or > OSS daemon all at once. > > Now I'm pretty sure I'm not right in my presumptions here but its the only > thing I've found to explain the mess that ps -ax presents to me. > > ------------- > FemmeFatale
I think you're right. I think the problem I had wasn't with xmms itself but with the info-pipe plugin I was using. I disabled it, re-enabled it, and everything's back to normal. I'm on a 9.0 machine right now without the plugin, and I get the same # of xmms in the ps list. Thanks, Todd
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