Bug 169065

Created attachment 119159 [details]
strace -p of gam_server process

zcat gam_server-strace.txt.gz | awk -F, '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n


shows about half of the files in /usr/bin being stat64'ed 89 times each:

   89 stat64("/usr/bin/4ssd"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/4ss_manager"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/aatest"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/ac"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/aclocal-1.9"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/addftinfo"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/akregator"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/allneeded"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/amidi"
     89 stat64("/usr/bin/amixer"
...

Created attachment 119160 [details]
gamin debug output

Here is the output generated by kill -USR2 <pid_of_gam_server>

Not sure how useful this is, but here is a backtrace from gdb:

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x0047e402 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x0047e402 in ?? ()
#1  0x00a0003b in ___xstat64 (vers=3, name=0xa69ff4 "<\235¦", buf=0xbff1322c) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstat64.c:50
#2  0x0804cb8c in poll_file (node=0x8a79948) at /usr/include/sys/stat.h:366
#3  0x0804d93b in gam_poll_scan_directory_internal (dir_node=Variable "dir_node"
is not available.
) at gam_poll.c:691
#4  0x0804dacc in gam_poll_scan_directory (path=0x899cb88 "/usr/bin") at
gam_poll.c:1151
#5  0x08052ca3 in gam_dnotify_pipe_handler (user_data=0x894a988) at
gam_dnotify.c:316
#6  0x037c44fc in g_io_unix_dispatch (source=0x894aa78, callback=0x8052bb4
<gam_dnotify_pipe_handler>, user_data=0x0) at giounix.c:162
#7  0x0379e4ce in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8949f38) at gmain.c:1934
#8  0x037a14d6 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8949f38, block=1,
dispatch=1, self=0x8945018) at gmain.c:2565
#9  0x037a17c3 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x894b140) at gmain.c:2769
#10 0x0804b01a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbff14894) at gam_server.c:368
#11 0x00959d5f in __libc_start_main (main=0x804ae77 <main>, argc=1,
ubp_av=0xbff14894, init=0x80534cc <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x805351c
<__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0x9351ad <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbff1488c) at
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:216
#12 0x0804a171 in _start ()
(gdb) continue

I occasionally see these from gdb.  The "Debugging Gamin" website at
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html#Debugging says to tell gdb to
not stop on SIG33.  I did the same for SIG34, since I never saw a SIG33 here.

Program received signal SIG34, Real-time event 34.

Program received signal SIG34, Real-time event 34.

Program received signal SIG34, Real-time event 34.

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
4682 morgan    25   0  2340 1160  872 R 83.7  0.5   0:48.99 gam_server

Like to confirm this bug?
I guess the above confirms it?
It occures when I connect the web.

My version is gamin-0.1.1-3.FC4
But, couldn't find anything newer in updates?

All, the other gam_server bugs like this seem to be a year ago.
M.

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