[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#406470: not reproducible here

[Thomas Braun]

On Monday 26 February 2007 11:44, Alexander Klauer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
Hi Alexander,

> sorry for answering so late. I haven't received your answer by mail, only
> just saw it in the BTS.

no problem, I only thought we got rid of this problem ;)

> copy & paste:
> > I would need some further information:
> > - Do you have this behjavour always (or only after a start and stop cycle
> > of kile)?
>
> What do you mean by "start and stop cycle"? Anyway, when I check the
> option, kile immediately starts hogging, when I uncheck it, kile
> immediately behaves normally again.

With start stop cycle I meant, quitting kile and then restarting kile.

> > - Or only after having other programs used this feature?
>
> What feature? The user in question does not use LyX or latex directly.

Yes this was the question :)

> > - Can you give the output of "ls -la .lyx .lyxpipe.*" in your home
> > directory of the user issuing kile.ls -la .lyx .lyxpipe.*
>
> In my home dir:
> $ ls: .lyxpipe.*: No such file or directory
> .lyx:
> total 10
> drwxr--r--  2 xxx xxx 2048 2007-02-26 11:38 .
> drwxr-xr-x 82 xxx xxx 8192 2007-02-26 11:38 ..
>
> In the user's home dir:
> $ ls -la .lyx .lyxpipe.*
> ls: .lyxpipe.*: No such file or directory
> .lyx:
> total 77
> drwxr-xr-x 15   xxx xxx  2048 2007-01-11 17:47 .
> drwxrwxr-x 61 xxx xxx  6144 2007-02-23 16:15 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 bind
> -rw-r--r--  1   xxx xxx  2960 2006-01-09 12:45 bstFiles.lst
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 clipart
> -rw-r--r--  1   xxx xxx  2310 2006-01-09 12:45 clsFiles.lst
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:46 doc
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 examples
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 help
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 images
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 kbd
> -rw-r--r--  1   xxx xxx    35 2006-10-10 16:01 lastfiles
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 layouts
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 reLyX
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 scripts
> -rw-r--r--  1   xxx xxx 36262 2006-01-09 12:45 styFiles.lst
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 templates
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:43 ui
> drwxr-xr-x  2   xxx xxx  2048 2006-01-09 12:46 xfonts
>
> (Note that the problem is reproducible for both me and the user.)
>
> > - Do you have your home on a local device, or some remote stuff (nfs,
> > openafs, smb, or similiar)
>
> The home dirs are in OpenAFS.
>
I think we found the culprit :)

Kile is using a fifo to be able to insert tags from lyx-compliant apps (This 
means e.g. gbib writes a bibtex reference to .lyxpipe.in and then kile gets 
notified and inserts the reference).
But according to 
http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/UsageFAQ#2_13_Can_I_create_a_fifo_aka_nam
Fifos are not supported by OpenAFS :(

Currently I don't know a solution but I will ask some other kile devs for 
help.

Thanks
Thomas Braun