I straced this problem and Kdevelop scalls:
find /usr/share/doc/kdelibs-devel-3/ /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/doc/html/ -name
'*.html' | awk 'OFS=""; {print "file://localhost", $0}' | htdig -v -s -c
/home/ewood/.kde/share/apps/kdevelop/tools/htdig.conf - ; htmerge -v -s -c
/home/ewood/.kde/share/apps/kdevelop/tools/htdig.conf
Which builds up:
~/.kdevelop-doc/db.xxxxx
files.
Thinking there was some kind of symbolic links point to each other cause a
infinite loop, I look around - appears okay. So,
$ find /usr/share/doc/kdelibs-devel-3/ /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/doc/html/ -name
'*.html' | wc -l
3698
So, I believe that htdig is getting into an infinite loop because these web
pages are pointing to themselves.
I killed the htdig and find process and Kdevelop started up okay.
I found interesting messages like
:http://www.htdig.org/mail/2000/06/0097.html and learned that htdig can
suffer from lots of infinite loops.
-eric wood
> Really? I thought it was just building a databse of help docs, or
something.
> I went to bed with it still running, and here it is 4am,
> and it is still running. It has been "indexing documentation" for
> about 20 hours now. I suppose I'd better kill it, if that's what you
suggest, but it told me to "wait until the process is finished" Is this
thing buggy?
> Will I be able to use KDevelopoif I kill it now?
>
> Tony
