Re: [Texmacs-dev] Problem with Ghostscript

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > Can someone show me the results of "ps -l" when
> > ghostscript is busy and when we are in the dead-lock.
> I've just launched TeXmacs with texmacs in an xterm, then tried to load
> Help->Configuration->Browse.
> TeXmacs display the window with menus, then hangs trying to load the
> /sw/share/TeXmacs-1.0.1.11/misc/images/tm_gnu1.ps (Fink port), so no
> contents are displayed.
>
> Here's the result of ps -l:
>
> 153 [02/05/2003 11:41] [imac:/Users/mylogin]% ps -l
>    UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI      VSZ    RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME
> COMMAND
>    501   503   502   0  31  0     6176   1040 -      S+    p1    0:01.89
> -tcsh (tcsh)
>    501  2224 14536   0  31  0    20816   9356 -      S+    p2    0:06.70
> texmacs.bin
>    501  2476  2224   0  31  0    14532   3460 -      S+    p2    0:00.21
>   (gs)
>    501 14536 14535   0  31  0     6176   1008 -      Ss    p2    0:00.27
> -tcsh (tcsh)
>    501  2478  2477   0  31  0     6176   1020 -      S    std    0:00.24
> -tcsh (tcsh)

Thanks for the feedback.
What does the Ss in STAT stand for?
Do you also have Ss just after launching gs?
(In order to check this, you may create a postscript
file which needs a long to be displayed and carefully
track what happens when opening it from TeXmacs).