I straced this problem and Kdevelop scalls: find /usr/share/doc/kdelibs-devel-3/ /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/doc/html/ -name '*.html' | awk 'OFS=""; {print "file://localhost", $0}' | htdig -v -s -c /home/ewood/.kde/share/apps/kdevelop/tools/htdig.conf - ; htmerge -v -s -c /home/ewood/.kde/share/apps/kdevelop/tools/htdig.conf Which builds up: ~/.kdevelop-doc/db.xxxxx files. Thinking there was some kind of symbolic links point to each other cause a infinite loop, I look around - appears okay. So, $ find /usr/share/doc/kdelibs-devel-3/ /usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2/doc/html/ -name '*.html' | wc -l 3698 So, I believe that htdig is getting into an infinite loop because these web pages are pointing to themselves. I killed the htdig and find process and Kdevelop started up okay. I found interesting messages like :http://www.htdig.org/mail/2000/06/0097.html and learned that htdig can suffer from lots of infinite loops. -eric wood > Really? I thought it was just building a databse of help docs, or something. > I went to bed with it still running, and here it is 4am, > and it is still running. It has been "indexing documentation" for > about 20 hours now. I suppose I'd better kill it, if that's what you suggest, but it told me to "wait until the process is finished" Is this thing buggy? > Will I be able to use KDevelopoif I kill it now? > > Tony -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list