On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:02:11AM -0800, larry@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Without a pre-existing .gimp-1.1 directory, > gimp cvs will lock up immediately after > you issue "gimp" at the command line. > > strace gimp reports over and over, at the > end, that: > > read(3, "\23\357w\0\27\0\200\1\27\0\200\1"..., 32) = 32 > ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 > read(3, 0xbfffef80, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily This is probably _not_ related to the missing .gimp-1.1 directory. Incidently, gimp asks me to create it (and does so) here. So the error must be somewhere else. Could you provide a full strace listing (to me, possibly bzipped? thanks ;) Also, strace is _very_ unreliable (at least on linux), so the real bug might be not related to the strace output at all. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |