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[Christian Thibodeau]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:07, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:52:28PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > It is 27 bytes, and I sent it to you as a separate email from my Severn
> > box. I hope I sent it to you correctly. I can't figure out how to get
> > Evolution 1.4 to attach a file that has a leading dot '.', and this led
> > me into a very inexpert session with mutt.
> 
>   I got it, will try to reproduce this today. Still I puzzled,
> I don't see anything in the code which could explain why the cache
> state can influence the rendering, *except* if it is a bug raised
> under load condition, then rebuilding the cache generates a lot
> of I/O though the rpm database, which added to the load associated to
> starting the desktop might create the conditions to raise that problem.
> If it's a race condition in the inter-process communication interface
> between the applet and the applet container running in the toolbar then
> having a lot of I/O might generate proper condition for the problem.
>   It would be interesting to see if you get the same problem with little
> load, for example once in the session, assuming the applet didn't display
> correctly, what happen if you kill the applet and restart it with
>    "killall rhn-applet-gui ; rhn-applet-gui &"
> is the display still broken ?

I also get the broken rhn applet display. Since I have only installed
severn today I cannot say if it is intermittent or not. I have a
.rhn-applet.cache file, which has 644 permissions and is of size 243689.

Running "killall rhn-applet-gui ; rhn-applet-gui &" did fix the applet.

I don't seem to be able to get it to break again tho'; I've only tried a
couple of things; logging out/in and rebooting.

This is on a Dell Optiplex GXa 266Mhz processor / 64Mb memory.

BTW, this also happens to me on my Shrike box at home a 333Mhz/192Mb
system. There is is intermittent.

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Christian Thibodeau
Open Systems, Operations
Common IT Services
Solutions BC, Province of BC
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