Recently I switched to kde from previous wm (enlightenment) and after a few days
of playing with it, I am fairly comfortable. However, there is one new problem
which I had not previously encountered and it does not seem to occur on the 7.3
and 7.2 boxes I have available -- only psyche.
Prior to switching desktops, I occasionally ran kword and a few other programs
from the koffice suite with no problem. However, after switching to the kde
desktop (talk about irony) whenever I try to run (for instance) koffice, I get
the message:
> Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
Before going into system details, this is a program which ran with no problems a
week ago under both enlightenment and the gnome desktop.
So I ran an strace on it and the program dies with:
> open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1474, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 1474, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40f66000
> close(3) = 0
> open("/usr/share/locale/en.iso885915/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
> write(2, "Mutex destroy failure: Device or"..., 46Mutex destroy failure:
Device or resource busy) = 46
> write(2, "\n", 1
> ) = 1
> write(6, "\1\v\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0l\0]\0", 16) = 16
> close(6) = 0
> munmap(0x41957000, 67724) = 0
> getpid() = 2471
> getpid() = 2471
> getpid() = 2471
> _exit(1) = ?
OK, I figured that I had hosed something up in my environment when I changed
desktops. So I switched back to enlightenment, logged out and restarted X, and
exactly the same thing happens.
So I created a dummy user, gave him kde as his environment, and tried running
kword. It came up the very first time. (OK, my environement, I thought...) But
then I tried exiting it and starting it again as that user. Same story -- same
message and same strace output.
While kword is not supercritical to me (I have a few docs which I receive about
once a month in that format) I don't have a clue where to start on this one.
*NO* new packages, system updates, etc., were installed since before the switch
to kde (when the trouble first appeared) and the system has been rebooted and
fully fsck'ed without any error messages.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Here are the other details:
kernel: kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0
kdebase: kdebase-3.0.3-14 (yes all packages updated from updates.redhat.com)
glibc...: glibc-common-2.2.93-5
koffice: koffice-1.2-0.rc1.4.i386.rpm
System is an athlon xp1800+ w 1G memory, 215Gb disk, 2GB swap... but no hardware
changes since well before the problem appeared and all diagnostics seem normal.
Thanks,
--
William W. Austin waustin@speakeasy.net
bill@dsl027-161-026.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net
"Life is just a phase I'm going through..."
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