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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:03:27 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Markus Brueffer <markus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible problem with gamin
Message-ID:  <1208585007.15734.61.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200804151726.00373.markus@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200804151726.00373.markus@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:25 +0200, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm currently hunting down a problem in KDE4 where kded4 (some sort of su=
per=20
> daemon) hangs when shutting down KDE4. kded4 has a plugin for file monito=
ring=20
> using the FAM API.
>=20
> If I replace gamin with fam, the shutdown works fine, so I'm suspecting a=
=20
> problem with gamin.
>=20
> Attaching to the hanging kded4 process shows this (full backtrace with fu=
rther=20
> debugging data is attached):
>=20
> [Switching to Thread 0x8103100 (LWP 100101)]
> 0x29976e61 in write () from /lib/libc.so.7
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x29976e61 in write () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #1  0x28fa3152 in write () from /lib/libthr.so.3
> #2  0x2977a1f1 in gamin_write_byte (fd=3D13, data=3D0xbfbfd69a "\n", len=
=3D10) at=20
> gam_api.c:535
> #3  0x2977a4b9 in gamin_send_request (type=3DGAM_REQ_CANCEL, fd=3D13,=20
> filename=3D0x0, fr=3D0x8254730, userData=3D0x0, data=3D0x811d800, has_req=
num=3D0) at=20
> gam_api.c:629
> #4  0x2977bc6d in FAMCancelMonitor (fc=3D0x817acb0, fr=3D0x8254730) at=20
> gam_api.c:1413
> #5  0x281aaca0 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry (this=3D0x817ac50,=20
> instance=3D0x81bab60, e=3D0x8254704, sub_entry=3D0x0)=20
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:797
> #6  0x281a9976 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry (this=3D0x817ac50,=20
> instance=3D0x81bab60, _path=3D@0x834beec, sub_entry=3D0x0)=20
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:771
> #7  0x281a9d56 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntries (this=3D0x817ac50,=20
> instance=3D0x81bab60)=20
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:873
> #8  0x281aa017 in ~KDirWatch (this=3D0x81bab60)=20
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:1520
> [...]
>=20
> top(1) shows that both gam_server and kded4 are in 'sbwait' state.
>=20
> This is on RELENG_7 (i386) with gamin-0.1.9_1. Switching between polling =
and=20
> kqueue support doesn't make a difference.

It would be good to see the backtrace from all gam_server threads to get
an idea what gam_server is doing.  kded4 has written data to the
gam_server socket, and it is blocking until the data is drained.

Joe

>=20
> Any ideas?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> Markus
>=20
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