Re: [Gnash] It Freezes: Gnash with AGG renderer and FB GUI

[Torbjorn Kristoffersen]

On 5/4/08, Udo Giacomozzi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Torbjorn,
>
> Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:27:58 AM, you wrote:
> TK> I used strace on the process and discovered this repeating itself
> endlessly:
>
> TK> read(3, 0xbfcbf754, 16)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> TK> temporarily unavailable)
> TK> read(4, 0xbfcbf760, 16)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> TK> temporarily unavailable)
> TK> gettimeofday({1209860234, 189976}, NULL) = 0
>
> Sounds like Gnash is stuck in the run() loop in gui/fb.cpp. I always
> use CTRL-C or kill to stop fb-gnash, so there could be a bug I did
> not notice.
>
> I guess the file reads are for the input devices. Please check via
> /proc what file descriptors 3 and 4 point to. I guess these are
> keyboard and mouse.
>
>
I tried on another machine and it doesn't have this problem.  It could
be there is something fishy with the software on the original machine.

> TK> I can kill the process from remote, but the screen is still "frozen",
> TK> so I can only get out of it by rebooting.
>
> Do you run Gnash as root?
>

Yes, I run it as root..

I'm already in the process of upgrading the machine in question so it
might just solve itself now.  Thanks for your help.

Torbjorn