Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:59:55 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> 
>> run ps auxw grep pine and ps auxw | grep perl
> address@hidden ~]$ ps auxw|grep pine
> btth     11116  0.0  0.2  15600  6640 pts/5    S+   15:22   0:01 alpine
> btth     12020  0.0  0.0   4212   704 pts/1    S+   16:10   0:00 grep pine
> address@hidden ~]$

If alpine is like pine it looks for a lock on your mail spool.  Does the
same thing happen if you close alpine before invoking the perl script?

> and 
> address@hidden ~]$ ps auxw|grep perl
> btth     12039  0.0  0.0   4212   704 pts/1    S+   16:12   0:00 grep perl
> address@hidden ~]$ 

This is OK

>       The first one makes sense, inasmuch as I do have alpine up and 
> running again.
> 
>> I suspect some artifact from one app or the other not properly
>> terminating.
> 
>       I hope you see more than I do above (which is quite possible) -- 
> or have more ideas ....

Not yet ;-)  You should be able to run as many instances of terminal or
perl as you wish so that narrows it down to alpine and a lock file.
Have you straced the script?

Why don't you use pan's mailer?

Do you boot to level 5 (X) or level 3 and startx?  I'm curious if an
error might be showing in the tty you startx from.

-- 
-Rinaldi-
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