[gamin] Re: [BUG?] Gamin locks up the machine in KDE

[Frederik Himpe <fhimpe telenet be>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:10:51 +0100, Francesco Biscani wrote:

> On Monday 10 January 2005 14:51, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:17:19PM +0100, Francesco Biscani wrote:
>> > I'm using gamin with inotify on KDE and I must say that it is very good.
>> > I have only one complaint with it, i.e. it locks the machine under
>> > determined circumstances. It happens when I try to unmount a device when
>> > Konqueror is opened on the mountpoint of that device. The machine simply
>> > locks up. I think it goes into a loop because after some seconds the fan
>> > of the laptop turns on, as if there were a lot of CPU activity going on.
>>
>>   Sounds like a loop in the inotify code in the kernel.

There seems to be the same/a related problem in Mandrakelinux 10.2
beta/Cooker, see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13424 .
The problem is that the kded process gets stuck in an endless loop when
update-menus to update the Debian menu system, is run.

We are starting to suspect this is caused by gamin, and not by inotify,
because someone reports to have it with both an inotify enabled kernel,
and a kernel without inotify support. Replacing gamin by fam, seems to
stop the problem.

I'll point the reporters of this bug to this thread, maybe the gamin
developers can give some hints about how they could debug this more in
detail. I can't help much myself, because the problem does not seem to
happen anymore on my system.

-- 
Frederik Himpe