Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14105
gtop 'just crashes' (sorry!) after about ten seconds
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
Start gtop. After about ten seconds or so, it simply 'goes away'. Starting from a terminal gets some error messages: I have snipped the first twenty or so lines of "Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so"," Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so", Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so", Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so", GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL glibtop: glibtop_get_proc_state (): Client requested field mask 0000f, but only have 0000c. glibtop: open (/proc/stat): Too many open files Wasn't sure whether this is gtop's fault or libgtop's. Also, I say 'after about ten seconds'. What usually happens is that I get bored waiting, start to move the mouse to place a window over/beneath it because that's what was happening the first crash, and it crashes before I can move the window. Dunno whether it's related. I doubt it: I'm just being completist.
I've seen this happen in Pinstripe now also. Also, the process names often have garbage characters in them, especially at the end of the name.
I've verified this bug separately - was waiting for the author to reply, I suppose I will have to start making a more serious effort.
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Release-Candidate #1
I was just about to log this :-) I see copious garbage characters and the 10 second or so crash
WORKSFORME (tm) after upgrading to libgtop-1.0.7. 1.0.6 apparently forgets to close the files in /proc it opens.
*** Bug 14981 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in libgtop-1.0.9-1
*** Bug 13833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***