352623 – dmenu hangs without doing anything

Bug 352623 - dmenu hangs without doing anything

Summary: dmenu hangs without doing anything

Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2011-01-24 18:55 UTC by Richard Connon
Modified:	2011-02-01 20:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required:	---

Attachments
strace dmenu (dmenu-strace,33.74 KB, text/plain) 2011-01-24 18:55 UTC, Richard Connon	Details
View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description Richard Connon 2011-01-24 18:55:07 UTC

whenever I run dmenu it hangs without doing anything

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install dmenu
2. Run it
Actual Results:  
dmenu hangs without doing anything

Expected Results:  
menu should appear

strace output attached. Note it hangs in a read() call

Comment 1 Richard Connon 2011-01-24 18:55:28 UTC

Created attachment 260608 [details]
strace dmenu

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-24 19:34:56 UTC

1) Please paste your `emerge --info x11-misc/dmenu' output in a comment.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-25 16:01:09 UTC

Also, what command did you run? Running dmenu expects some input. Please read the man page.

Comment 4 Richard Connon 2011-02-01 20:45:45 UTC

Yeah. My bad, should have been running dmenu_run ofc.