Bug 139611 - gamin mystery
Summary: gamin mystery
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Firefox (show other bugs)
Version: RC 4
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2005-12-16 16:14 UTC by Ladislav Michnovic
Modified: 2006-08-17 20:15 UTC (History)
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gamin core dump (672.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-12-16 16:15 UTC, Ladislav Michnovic 		Details
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Description Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 16:14:56 UTC 
Sometimes happens, that my Firefox stops resolving urls. Restart of the application helpes but it hangs up (window dissapeared). I have to kill it amnualy and I see a strange proces belonging to gamin is pressent. So I suspecting gamin. 
I'm attaching core of gamin.
Comment 1 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 16:15:44 UTC 
Created attachment 61088 [details]
gamin core dump
Comment 2 Robert Love 2005-12-16 17:58:47 UTC 
Not following why you are blaming gamin?
Comment 3 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 18:28:05 UTC 
Just suspecting. You can check out the core.
Comment 4 Robert Love 2005-12-16 18:39:13 UTC 
Firefox links to neither FAM nor Gamin ...
Comment 5 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 19:18:45 UTC 
It was a first idea. Maybe I'm totally wrong with the gamin. Any idea what can cause such behavior of Firefox?
Comment 6 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-16 19:27:19 UTC 
Firefox is using gconf which is using fam/gamin somehow. I have no other idea at the moment and maybe it's unrelated.
Comment 7 JP Rosevear 2005-12-19 15:07:49 UTC 
Firefox uses gnome-vfs which uses gamin if available.
Comment 8 JP Rosevear 2006-02-16 04:53:34 UTC 
Now that I think about it, I suspect gnome-vfs2 actually implicitly requires fam or gamin, but not explicitly.  This will be fixed as part of bug 128037.

Stanislav, should we update gnome-vfs2 with a dep for SL 10.0?
Comment 9 Stanislav Brabec 2006-02-16 13:25:22 UTC 
It is correct - it needs virtual file_alteration instead. We have had a bug 120314 about broken dependency chain (fixed by 10.0 YOU).

There are more gamin problems reports in Bugzilla.

I don't know, how gamin works with NFS home. Try to start fam daemon and try again. Wrapper should switch to fam for all launched applications.
Comment 10 Dan Winship 2006-02-24 19:06:32 UTC 
As Robert said in comment #2, it's not at all clear why gamin is getting
blamed here. At any rate, gnome-vfs should no longer depend on gamin in any
way in Beta5, so if the bug goes away, then I guess it was gamin's fault and
you can close this, and if the bug doesn't go away, then it's a Firefox bug.
Comment 11 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-08-17 20:15:57 UTC 
Closing because of lack of information.
Please reopen if the problem still occurs.