On 03/31/2011 01:32:30 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > 2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory > > and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. > > > > How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? > > > > It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home > directory. > > > > Use pstree to see what is executing it when this is happening. >
Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/90dataplot file. Thus it went into /etc/profile.env. I think it's very strange that a package may modify such a vital environment variable as 'BROWSER'. Is this a bug in sci-mathematics/dataplot ? Thanks, and sorry for getting panic-stricken, Helmut.
