Peter said:
> Is there any test to find out what is going on while gnumeric tries to
> open?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> You can use the program 'strace' to see whats happening
These are the output lines of strace before it goes apparently into an eternal
loop.
read(17, "order hosts, bind\nmulti on\n", 4096) = 27
read(17, "", 4096) = 0
close(17) = 0
munmap(0x4002a000, 4096) = 0
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 17
fcntl64(17, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(17, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(17, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=614, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
read(17, "#\n# hosts\t\tThis file describes a"..., 4096) = 614
read(17, "", 4096) = 0
close(17) = 0
munmap(0x4002a000, 4096) = 0
time(NULL) = 1079742513
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 17
fcntl64(17, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
setsockopt(17, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
setsockopt(17, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
connect(17, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.
access("/usr/share/locale/C_/cups_C_", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or direc
access("/usr/share/locale/C/cups_C", F_OK) = 0
send(17, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n", 17, 0) = 17
send(17, "Content-Length: 137\r\n", 21, 0) = 21
send(17, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
send(17, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
close(17) = 0
1) socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 17
2) fcntl64(17, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
3) setsockopt(17, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
4) setsockopt(17, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
5) connect(17, {sa_family=AF_INET,sin_port=htons(631),sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0
.
6) send(17, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n", 17, 0) = 17
7) send(17, "Content-Length: 137\r\n", 21, 0) = 21
8) send(17, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken
pipe)
9) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
10) send(17, "Content-Type: application/ipp\r\n", 31, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken
pipe)
11) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
12) close(17)
The lines which I numbered 1 to 12 is the loop ad indefinitum which keeps the
CPU busy and shows in my program 'stipchart' as Load and Busy. Top does not
show anything special, memory and swap remain constant, just the CPU being
busy until I do a ^c.
The mind bugling number of 45 odd libraries needed by gnumeric do not show any
overlap or mismatch. When I un-installed gnumeric I saw that a lot of
libraries were being deleted and put back with the re-installation.
The only program I installed lately is ActiveTcl which has its own set of
libraries.
I just looked at my old favorite spreadsheet QuattroPro where for less then
5Mb one has a program with graphics unmatched by Excel and any of its copies
in Linux and macros so easy to apply, plus plus plus. Why was Excel copied and
not QuattroPro? Unfortunately I cannot open it with dosemu out of Linux.
Now can anyone make sense out of the lines created with strace gnumeric to get
that program back on stream?
Thanks & regards
--
Peter
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