Possible problem with gamin

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:25 +0200, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently hunting down a problem in KDE4 where kded4 (some sort of super 
> daemon) hangs when shutting down KDE4. kded4 has a plugin for file monitoring 
> using the FAM API.
> 
> If I replace gamin with fam, the shutdown works fine, so I'm suspecting a 
> problem with gamin.

I'll look into this.  I may not get to it before the weekend, though.

Joe

> 
> Attaching to the hanging kded4 process shows this (full backtrace with further 
> debugging data is attached):
> 
> [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=13, data=0xbfbfd69a "\n", len=10) at 
> gam_api.c:535
> #3  0x2977a4b9 in gamin_send_request (type=GAM_REQ_CANCEL, fd=13, 
> filename=0x0, fr=0x8254730, userData=0x0, data=0x811d800, has_reqnum=0) at 
> gam_api.c:629
> #4  0x2977bc6d in FAMCancelMonitor (fc=0x817acb0, fr=0x8254730) at 
> gam_api.c:1413
> #5  0x281aaca0 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry (this=0x817ac50, 
> instance=0x81bab60, e=0x8254704, sub_entry=0x0) 
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:797
> #6  0x281a9976 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry (this=0x817ac50, 
> instance=0x81bab60, _path=@0x834beec, sub_entry=0x0) 
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:771
> #7  0x281a9d56 in KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntries (this=0x817ac50, 
> instance=0x81bab60) 
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:873
> #8  0x281aa017 in ~KDirWatch (this=0x81bab60) 
> at /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs4/work/kdelibs-4.0.3/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp:1520
> [...]
> 
> top(1) shows that both gam_server and kded4 are in 'sbwait' state.
> 
> This is on RELENG_7 (i386) with gamin-0.1.9_1. Switching between polling and 
> kqueue support doesn't make a difference.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Markus
> 
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