[kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE
Bastiaan Welmers
bastiaan at welmers.net
Wed Dec 13 16:18:17 PST 2006
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:06:43AM +0000, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Just a quick "me too". I have been seeing the exact same behavior ever
> since gamin was shoved down our throats as a better replacement for fam.
> But since nobody else complained, I figured it was just my system.
When building from ports it's quite easy to change back to fam, just put
WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam
into /etc/make.conf
For existing systems/binary installed systems, you can just pkg_delete
-f gamin* and install fam instead, so gamin libraries wil be replaced by
the fam ones, it works well to me. One nasty thing is that when afterwards
installing a package requiring gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent
this you could just "fake" the pkg db that gamin is installed however
actually fam libraries are installed.
> Whatever gamin is doing, it is not showing up in lsof, but the file
> system is still busy. I did try tweaking my ~/.gaminrc to switch to
> polling for the mount points in question, but this didn't help. Oddly
> enough, sometimes, maybe one time out of ten, gamin will not exhibit
> this strange behavior. It will just let me unmount without any problems.
Maybe because you just unmount on exactly the right moment, when gamin
is not occupying the file system? Or just all windows and processes are
closed cleanly.
/Bastiaan
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