On Apr 23, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Matthew Parry wrote: >> i have been having some trouble with xterm hanging recently. i'm on a >> MBP 10.4.11 with latest fink. >> >> it only happens after a start up. i.e. not if i logout and then login >> again. >> >> the first xterm hangs after showing: >> >> Last login: Thu Apr 23 13:55:32 on console >> Welcome to Darwin! >> >> a second xterm fires up ok and ps shows: >> >> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND >> 238 p1 S 0:00.09 -tcsh >> 250 p1 S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -e /sw/bin/start-session-bus.sh >> 251 p1 S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -e /sw/bin/start-session-bus.sh >> 253 p1 S+ 0:00.00 grep -c org.finkproject.dbus-session >> 254 p1 S+ 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd >> 278 p2 Ss 0:00.04 -csh >> >> if i then go back to the first xterm and do ctrl-c processes 250, 251 >> and 253 are stopped. >> >> i would really appreciate any help in understanding what is going on! >> >> before the last update to dbus, i had similar behaviour but usually >> the hang resolved itself in a minute or so. > > I think this is a bug in the start-session-bus.sh script: > > On 10.4, `launchctl list` usually gives no output at all, and the > "grep > -c" command then hangs. Maybe the command > > `launchctl list 2>/dev/null | grep -c org.finkproject.dbus-session` > > should be replaced by something like > > `(echo nothing; launchctl list) 2>/dev/null | grep -c > org.finkproject.dbus-session`
Martin, 'grep -c' should be able to cope with empty input (returning 0), as long as you are passing a regex (in this case, 'org.finkproject.dbus- session'). Are you sure it isn't something else? Matthew, Just to be sure, what is the output of 'dpkg -l dbus'? Also, what does 'launchctl list' return? - Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
