On Tuesday 27 February 2007 10:46, Alexander Klauer wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > (no reply-to was set; do you need CC:'s in the future?)
Hi Alexander, no I don't need CC:'s because I'm subscribed to all kile bugs in debian. > Thomas Braun: > > > > - Do you have this behjavour always (or only after a start and stop > > > > cycle of kile)? > > > > > > What do you mean by "start and stop cycle"? Anyway, when I check the > > > option, kile immediately starts hogging, when I uncheck it, kile > > > immediately behaves normally again. > > > > With start stop cycle I meant, quitting kile and then restarting kile. > > I see. Nope, a start-stop cycle is not required. thanks. > > > > - Do you have your home on a local device, or some remote stuff (nfs, > > > > openafs, smb, or similiar) > > > > > > The home dirs are in OpenAFS. > > > > I think we found the culprit :) > > > > Kile is using a fifo to be able to insert tags from lyx-compliant apps > > (This means e.g. gbib writes a bibtex reference to .lyxpipe.in and then > > kile gets notified and inserts the reference). > > But according to > > http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/UsageFAQ#2_13_Can_I_create > >_a _fifo_aka_nam Fifos are not supported by OpenAFS :( > > > > Currently I don't know a solution but I will ask some other kile devs for > > help. > > Well, that explains things. If I may make two suggestions: > > 1. Kile tries to create a FIFO and when this fails, it creates a regular > file instead: > > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.419907 mknod("/afs/.../home/xxx/.lyxpipe.in", S_IFIFO| > 0644) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.419981 dup(2) = 13 > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.420047 fcntl64(13, F_GETFL) = 0x8001 (flags O_WRONLY| > O_LARGEFILE) > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.420102 close(13) = 0 > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.420138 write(2, "Could not create pipe : Operatio"..., > 48Could not create pipe : Operation not permitted) = 48 > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.420257 open("/afs/.../home/xxx/.lyxpipe.in", O_RDWR| > O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > [pid 4968] 09:58:11.420326 open("/afs/.../home/xxx/.lyxpipe.in", O_RDWR| > O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 13 > Well actually kile really creates a regular file but due to some unfortunate testing after the creation of the fifo. I try to prepare a short term fix and add point two to the kile 2.0 TODO list :) > The regular file messes up the usual select/pipe semantics. It would be > better (as a short term solution) to show the user a clean error message > instead, something like "Sorry, but this functionality is unavailable > because the file system of your home directory does not support FIFOs." > > 2. (long-term solution) Place the FIFO somewhere where they are supported > for sure, e.g. in /tmp/kde-username/. Thanks a lot, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
