Starting xdvi or xdvi-xaw from xterm (or anywhere else) makes it, well, start. It will then display the name of the loaded file in the header bar, and show only one page in its page list. The page which it displays is completely white. The system is completely unresponsive (no mouse, no reaction to any keystroke or combination); the only solution being to switch the power off. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type "xdvi" in an xterm window (or start it from the window manager) Actual Results: Results as described above. Expected Results: [Expected behaviour is obvious, I suppose.] The problem occured after a new installation of xdvik, but I am unable to say which version I had installed before, or to say with certainty whether it ran fine. I cannot remember having had this problem, however. My window manager is fvwm; there were no other programs running when I reproduced the crash (several times and with two different users, and with different files). > emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_M_processor_1.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo sunrise x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US fr" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa bash-completion bcmath berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri dvd emacs exif expat fortran gdbm gif graphviz gs gtk iconv imlib ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea libwww maildir mime mng modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg openmp oss pam pcre png pnp pppd readline recode sasl session soap spell sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcpd tidy tiff toolkit-scroll-bars truetype unicode usb win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xpm xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa via" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
When you say it is completely unresponsive, does that mean you can't even work around X to get a console to display more information using, say, an SSH shell opened from another machine?
(In reply to comment #1) > When you say it is completely unresponsive, does that mean you can't even work > around X to get a console to display more information using, say, an SSH shell > opened from another machine? Thanks very much for replying! I'm afraid I have been working on a stand-alone machine for all my life, never using networking for anything else but connecting to the internet; thus, even though I have heard X uses a client-server architecture, I wouldn't have the slightest idea of how to use it. (I.e. can I contact the running X server "from the outside" and "ask it questions"?) Having said that, I did manage to find a workaround to start xdvi: When I start it with a command line such as: > sleep 10; xdvi and quickly switch to a console terminal before it does start, the console is not affected by xdvi in any way. I can then verify that xdvi is actually running using: > ps a 1348 pts/0 S+ 0:00 xdvi-xaw -name xdvi And even > kill 1348 works as supposed, i.e. xdvi disappears from the process list, and I can switch back to the X terminal and continue working. (In contrast, if I switch to the X terminal while xdvi is still running, I'm finished, because then I am stuck in the situation I described above.) This looks to me as if xdvi is basically well-behaved - apart from freezing all in- and output on X, that is. The only idea I had of how to learn more was to start it with strace - not because I have a clear idea of the information it provides, but I've seen other people do that. I am adding the output as an attachment. Is there anything more informative I could do from the console? Many thanks, Florian
Created attachment 291635 [details] STDERR output of "strace xdvi" (as described in comment # 2)
Do you suffer the same with 22.85-r1?
(In reply to comment #4) > Do you suffer the same with 22.85-r1? Thanks for getting back to this; I had forgotten, and had simply stopped using xdvi. Assuming that there had been several version changes since my bug report, I just checked the one that was on my machine before installing 22.85-r1. This installed version works completely fine. What is surprising is that it is precisely > xdvi --version xdvik version 22.84.16 (Xaw toolkit) Libraries: kpathsea version 6.0.1, T1lib version 5.1.2 I can only speculate what fixed the problem. I have certainly updated my system every two or three weeks (which would amount to about 20 times since the bug report). But apart from that, I migrated the hard disk to another machine, and to make that work, I had to use a different X server module (from openchrome to nvidia)
-- Sorry for posting in the midst of writing; that was some unintended key combination. -- I also had to apply a few changes to the kernel, but I don't remember which ones. I suspect you have more important things to do than to look into this past problem any further, but for what it's worth, I'm posting the current emerge --info. (Information specific to X would probably be what's really interesting, but I'm not savvy as to that.) In any case, thanks a lot for getting back to this; it made me welcome xdvi back! > emerge --info: Portage 2.1.11.9 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.1.10-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.10-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.7 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo emacs x11 multimedia science voyageur sabayon sunrise ephemeral x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-1" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/emacs /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/multimedia /var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/voyageur /var/lib/layman/sabayon /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/ephemeral /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa bash-completion bcmath berkdb bzip2 cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri dvd emacs exif expat ffmpeg fortran gdbm gif graphviz gs gtk iconv imlib ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea libwww maildir mime mng modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nptl nvidia ogg openmp oss pam pcre perl png pnp pppd readline recode rtmp rtsp sasl session sndfile soap spell sqlite ssl svg tcpd tidy tiff toolkit-scroll-bars truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xpm xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="avision" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quot
