site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: (4) after the problem happens, issue the command: exec ps gaxlwww -Jamie Hello , on both powerpc-apple-darwin9 and i686-apple-darwin9 nothing will launch from the dock, double clicking ... or open -a. log out / back in solves the problem. cheers, Iain -- Jamison Hope The PTR Group www.theptrgroup.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... In the first extra terminal window. This will replace the shell, but tell you about the processes (which you will be able to scroll back to because of #2) (5) look at who the parent process is for all the zombies. If there are no zombies, you should be able to identify a forkbomb by process name. Otherwise look for third party software to reinstall to see if you can resolve a deadlock. (6) in the second extra terminal window, shoot that process in the head (if it's a forkbomb type runaway, you can exec the kill command to use the shell process slot to do the kill in the second window; you will lose the shell but you should be able to open new windows after that, if you killed the right thing) (7) never, ever, run that process again, unless you have fixed it to reap its children correctly/not run away, and recompiled and reinstalled it Hmm… I just tried that for kicks to see if I had any zombies today on this machine, and I found three. I don't think I'll be able to fix and recompile the culprits, though, because the PPIDs indicate that they are: UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 501 47822 202 0 46 0 446724 26844 - S ?? 0:12.45 /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal -psn_0_12446686 501 47836 47822 0 0 0 0 0 - Z ?? 0:00.00 (iCalExternalSync) 501 49325 1 0 14 17 130424 7684 - SNs ?? 0:01.03 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/ Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdworker MDSImporterWorker com.apple.Spotlight.ImporterWorker.501 501 49364 49325 0 0 17 0 0 - ZN ?? 0:00.00 (sh) 501 49643 202 0 62 0 477116 52340 - U ?? 0:23.62 /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -psn_0_12676118 501 49725 49643 0 0 0 0 0 - Z ?? 0:00.00 (AddressBookSync) On Sep 5, 2009, at 1:51 AM, IainS <developer@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk> wrote: I have a phenomenon I'm trying to understand. I run a large dejagnu testsuite (the gcc make check) from time to time and some amazing interaction has appeared. almost (>90%) on every occasion I run the testsuite it trashes application launch. The error message reported is [alert dialogue] "the application xxxx cannot be launched. -10810" neither google nor support on the apple website have proved illuminating on what the error message means .. and I'd like some opinions on how to debug this interaction. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/tlambert %40apple.com This email sent to tlambert@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/jrh %40theptrgroup.com This email sent to jrh@theptrgroup.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com