Re: [wmii] wmiirc Locking Up

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:04:07PM -0600, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I have been using wmii for the past few weeks, and overall I have been
> > quite happy with it. But I have stumbled across a rather annoying bug with
> > wmiirc. After I have been running wmii for anywhere between a day and
> > several days, it will stop responding to keyboard inputs. I blame this on
> > wmiirc as if I kill it and then start a new one from an open shell, then
> > keyboard input starts working again. This has happened multiple times.
>
> Never noticed this. Do you use AFS?

No, only NFS, and not on the systems having this problem. My laptop has
displayed it once or twice, and it has never has any network mounts. Where
I have seen it more often is on my server, which is hosting several
X-terminals. I have a couple of disk-less PCs running only an X server and
using XDM to connect back to the server. All applications, including wmii,
are running on the server, as X clients. While the server does offer NFS
shares to other systems, the home directories that wmiirc is running out
of are local on the server itself. Maybe it has something to do with
multiple instances of wmiirc running on the same system at the same time?

Here are a list of the running processes related to wmii, where 'magellan'
is the server and furies, juno, vesta, hathaway, and apollo are the
Xterminals. My user, rkirkpat, is logged on at each terminal. The
/home/users/rkirkpat directory is local to magellan.

magellan$ ps ax | grep wmii
  903 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/wmii
  948 ? S 5:49 wmiiwm -a unix /tmp/ns.rkirkpat.furies.rkirkpat.net:0/wmii
  972 ? S 20:04 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/status
  985 ? S 0:00 wmiir read /event
 2921 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/wmii
 2966 ? S 5:51 wmiiwm -a unix /tmp/ns.rkirkpat.juno.rkirkpat.net:0/wmii
 2990 ? S 20:14 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/status
 3005 ? S 0:00 wmiir read /event
14058 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/wmii
14103 ? S 6:29 wmiiwm -a unix /tmp/ns.rkirkpat.vesta.rkirkpat.net:0/wmii
  988 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/wmiirc
 3006 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/wmiirc
32541 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/wmii
32607 ? S 2:43 wmiiwm -a unix /tmp/ns.rkirkpat.hathaway.rkirkpat.net:0/wmii
32641 ? S 9:06 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/status
32656 ? S 0:00 wmiir read /event
30541 ? S 5:20 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/status
30553 ? S 0:00 wmiir read /event
30554 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/wmiirc
10194 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/wmii
10262 ? S 1:37 wmiiwm -a unix /tmp/ns.rkirkpat.apollo.rkirkpat.net:0/wmii
10316 ? S 5:28 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/status
10335 ? S 0:00 wmiir read /event
10336 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/wmiirc
32657 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/users/rkirkpat/.wmii-3/wmiirc

I am still running straces on the wmiirc processes to try and catch the
lock up in the act. TTYL.

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Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 15:02:51 UTC