[kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE

[Bastiaan Welmers]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:06:43AM +0000, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Just a quick "me too". I have been seeing the exact same behavior ever 
> since gamin was shoved down our throats as a better replacement for fam. 
> But since nobody else complained, I figured it was just my system. 

When building from ports it's quite easy to change back to fam, just put

WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam

into /etc/make.conf

For existing systems/binary installed systems, you can just pkg_delete
-f gamin* and install fam instead, so gamin libraries wil be replaced by
the fam ones, it works well to me. One nasty thing is that when afterwards 
installing a package requiring gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent 
this you could just "fake" the pkg db that gamin is installed however 
actually fam libraries are installed.

> Whatever gamin is doing, it is not showing up in lsof, but the file 
> system is still busy. I did try tweaking my ~/.gaminrc to switch to 
> polling for the mount points in question, but this didn't help. Oddly 
> enough, sometimes, maybe one time out of ten, gamin will not exhibit 
> this strange behavior. It will just let me unmount without any problems.

Maybe because you just unmount on exactly the right moment, when gamin
is not occupying the file system? Or just all windows and processes are 
closed cleanly.

/Bastiaan