[Splashy-devel] Bug#422930: splashy: strace

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:41:13 +0200
Benjamin Eikel <debian at eikel.org> wrote:

> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.3
> Followup-For: Bug #422930
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> I tried to create an strace to investigate what is causing the cpu load. I added "strace -ff -o$DIR/splashy-strace " in front of 
> "/sbin/splashy boot" in /etc/init.d/splashy but that did not work. Splashy was showed but was not doing anything (the progress bar 
> "showed" 0%; 

I think that strace prevented splashy to go to the background. Also
know that splashy uses several threads, so I think you need at least
'-f' too.

> I was able to continue by pressing ESC). Can you give me a hint to do it right? Will a trace even help you?

Maybe... from your previous messages it seems that splashy didn't stop
and in the end exited because of the timeout we implemented. The
problem is most probably solved at the same time as #410438.

grts Tim
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