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[Axiom-mail] Getting started on Fedora9


From: Enrique Perez-Terron
Subject: [Axiom-mail] Getting started on Fedora9
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:02:07 +0100

I just donwloaded, untarred, etc, axiom-fedora9-sept2008-bin.tgz,

but when I run it, I get these messages, and nothing more happens.:

(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
(HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.

I was unable to find any running processes. Certainly no windows.

To be little more specific: As root:

  # cd /usr/local
  # tar zxf /home/enrique/axiom-fedora9-sept2008-bin.tgz
  # ls axiom/mnt
  fedora9
  # EXPORT AXIOM=/usr/local/axiom/mnt/fedora9
  # PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
  # axiom

I also tried to run as non-root user, after again setting AXIOM and
PATH, and exporting. The program terminated after the above output, with
exit status 0.

I then tried to get a glimpse of what was happening. I used "strace to
track all system calls. Unfortunately, it failed in a way I have never
seen before:

  $ strace -f -o /tmp/axiom.strace axiom
  resume: ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, ...): No such process
  resume: ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, ...): No such process
  PANIC: attached pid 31124 exited
  resume: ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, ...): No such process
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  (HyperDoc) Cannot load font 
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 ; using default.
  resume: ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL, ...): No such process

and this time the process did not terminate. From a different terminal,
I found the following processes:

  # ps -t pts/2
    PID TTY          TIME CMD
  30583 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
  31120 pts/2    00:00:00 strace
  31121 pts/2    00:00:00 sman
  31127 pts/2    00:00:00 session
  31128 pts/2    00:00:00 clef
  31129 pts/2    00:00:00 hypertex
  31131 pts/2    00:00:00 viewman
  31132 pts/2    00:00:00 sman <defunct>

yet the output file from strace contains no output concerning any other
processes than the first 'sman' process, 31121 (except the clone calls
that create the subprocesses).

I could not see that X had any related clients:

  # xlsclients
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-session
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-settings-daemon
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-screensaver
  apeiron.home.lan  metacity
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-panel
  apeiron.home.lan  nautilus
  apeiron.home.lan  bluetooth-applet
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-user-share
  apeiron.home.lan  nm-applet
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-power-manager
  apeiron.home.lan  pam-panel-icon
  apeiron.home.lan  applet.py
  apeiron.home.lan  trashapplet
  apeiron.home.lan  wnck-applet
  apeiron.home.lan  notification-area-applet
  apeiron.home.lan  mixer_applet2
  apeiron.home.lan  clock-applet
  apeiron.home.lan  Tomboy
  apeiron.home.lan  gnome-terminal
  apeiron.home.lan  evolution-alarm-notify
  apeiron.home.lan  notification-daemon
  apeiron.home.lan  evolution
  apeiron.home.lan  firefox

I tried to attach to any of the processes with strace, but got 

  attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted

Could it be that sman does itself ptrace its children?


Then I did "kill -9" on all processes.  A new message has appeared in
the terminal window where I started axiom:

  (HyperDoc) Error opening AXIOM server. Retrying ...

I don't know if that message came before doing the kill.

Where do I go from here?





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