Need some help on IC5.033

[svilen]

Hi,

Here is the problem. I have IC5.033 running on RH8.0. Today, when i
typed icfb at the command prompt, I got the CIW open, but it hanged
very soon after displaying the message of the number of color bits that
I use. It hanged and no signs of life although Linux became very slow
when I tried to do other things with it.
I waited for 10 min but nothing changed. Whatever I see in CIW is also
written in CDS.log and nothing more. It behaves the same way if I start
icfb from another account. The installation uses 24 bit color and
nothing has been installed recently on that machine. If I try to start
the Library manager for example I get the following message:

cdsServIpc: ipcIsAliveProcess connection timeout
Waiting for ipc:0 to initialize
Waiting for ipc:0 to initialize

So, I really don't know what is happening. Interesting thing is that
everything worked perfectly up until yesterday. Can someone give any
hints? Or at least what can be done to see what is going on? Thanks

 

[Satya Mishra]

"svilen" == svilen <sminchev@yahoo.com> writes:
svilen> Date: 24 Jan 2005 12:09:00 -0800

svilen> Hi,

svilen> Here is the problem. I have IC5.033 running on
svilen> RH8.0. Today, when i typed icfb at the command prompt, I
svilen> got the CIW open, but it hanged very soon after displaying
svilen> the message of the number of color bits that I use. It
svilen> hanged and no signs of life although Linux became very
svilen> slow when I tried to do other things with it. I waited
svilen> for 10 min but nothing changed. Whatever I see in CIW is
svilen> also written in CDS.log and nothing more. It behaves the
svilen> same way if I start icfb from another account. The
svilen> installation uses 24 bit color and nothing has been
svilen> installed recently on that machine. If I try to start the
svilen> Library manager for example I get the following message:

svilen> cdsServIpc: ipcIsAliveProcess connection timeout Waiting
svilen> for ipc:0 to initialize Waiting for ipc:0 to initialize

svilen> So, I really don't know what is happening. Interesting
svilen> thing is that everything worked perfectly up until
svilen> yesterday. Can someone give any hints? Or at least what
svilen> can be done to see what is going on? Thanks


Sounds like icfb is waiting for another program to start up. Try
renaming your .cdsinit and other initialization files to see if that
fixes anything.


Try strace -p `pgrep icfb`. It's a start. If you don't get any useful
info out of it, you may have to hack up the icfb script to launch
icfb through strace so that you can find out which program is causing
the wait.

These are sort of general debugging methods.

Satya


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