Hi again,
rereading my mail from tonight the startup sequence seems to be not too clear.
Must have been very sleepy :-)
At the moment I start all three servers in the order gdomap - gdnc - gpbs right
after the display manager (wdm). On the boot screen I can see the output from
the various scripts, and see at least the beginning of my gnustep start script
appearing _before_ switching to graphics mode. Could it be that gpbs is up and
running way before X comes up, and that gpbs depends strongly on X? This might
explain the behaviour.
Cheers,
Andreas
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:28:53 +0200
"AndreasHeppel" <aheppel@web.de> wrote:
Hi Nicola and all the others,
I installed version 0.7.8 of gui and back and my system is still working :-) Unfortunately, it did not solve the gpbs problem. Thus, I started to dig around and here
is what I found out so far.
It seems that gpbs crashes during the pasteboard operation. The (remote) client then hangs in the RPC and is stuck. This happens if and only if I start gpbs
during boot time (FYI, I use a suse 7.3 distro and hacked gnustep into suse's set of start/stop scripts.). If I do it manually from a command line everything is fine.
Also, if I don't start it at all and let the client application do the work everything goes fine.
I tested the thing using GNUMail.app (1.0.2). I open the preferences panel and highlight the user name using the mouse. That's all I need to reproduce this
behaviour. A couple of NSLog brought me finally near the place. It is somewhere in 'declareTypes' in the NSPasteboardObject class of gpbs. I am absolutely
positive that the call goes out from NSPasteboard and reaches gpbs. Somewhere in there gpbs crashes.
The last idea I had was that it might have to do with X. In particular the starting order seems to be important. If I start gpbs after X is up and running I am fine. If I
do it during start up of the system (somewhere near the start of X) it goes wrong. How far and how tight are X and gpbs connected? is it possible that some data
structures are not initialised properly if gpbs is started to soon after X?
At the moment I am too tired to dig deeper into the thing. The other problem is that if start gpbs the erroneous way I have no tty attached to gpbs where I could
NSLog what is going on. Where do the logs go in this case? Or any other idea how to debug this?
Thanks for your time.
Thanks for yours :-)
Have a good night. I will.
Andreas
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