Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: Any way to disable the "Alarm clock"?

[Rick Flower]

On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:32:21 -0700, Rick Flower <address@hidden>
wrote:

> I'll look some more.. to see what is causing this.. It's hard to
> tell without a stackdump.. 

Ok.. More info w/ truss.. This time showing calls into libgst.so
just prior to the alarm that kills it :

4685/1:                           <- libgst:execute_primitive_operation()
= 0
4685/1:                         <- libgst:_gst_send_message_internal() = 0
4685/1:                         ->
libgst:_gst_send_message_internal(0xfac02b90, 0x0, 0xfac462a0, 0xfac03360)
4685/1:                         <- libgst:_gst_send_message_internal() =
0xfac35c08
4685/1:                         -> libgst:unwind_context(0x1, 0xfac2c160,
0xfac462a0, 0xfac2c160)
4685/1:                         <- libgst:unwind_context() = 0xfac2c160
4685/1:                         -> libgst:unwind_context(0x3, 0xfac2c160,
0xfac462a0, 0xfac2c160)
4685/1:                         <- libgst:unwind_context() = 0xfac35c08
4685/1:                         ->
libgst:_gst_send_message_internal(0xfac35b80, 0x1, 0xfac02820, 0xfac03458)
4685/1:                           ->
libgst:execute_primitive_operation(0x86, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                             -> libgst:VMpr_Processor_pause(0x0,
0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                               -> libgst:_gst_usleep(0x4e20, 0x0,
0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:         alarm(0)                                        = 0
4685/1:         setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBEEA90, 0xFFBEEA80)  = 0
4685/1:         sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBEE990, 0xFFBEEA40)      = 0
4685/1:         sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0xFFBEEA30, 0xFFBEEA20)  = 0
4685/1:         setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBEEA90, 0x00000000)  = 0
4685/1:         sigsuspend(0xFFBEEA10)                          Err#4
EINTR
4685/1:                                 ->
libgst:file_polling_handler(0x16, 0x0, 0xffbee6f8, 0xff23c008)
4685/1:                                   ->
libgst:_gst_disable_interrupts(0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                                   <-
libgst:_gst_disable_interrupts() = 1
4685/1:                                   ->
libgst:_gst_async_call(0xff2cf020, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                                   <- libgst:_gst_async_call() =
0xff2cf020
4685/1:                                   ->
libgst:_gst_enable_interrupts(0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                                   <-
libgst:_gst_enable_interrupts() = 1
4685/1:                                   ->
libgst:_gst_set_signal_handler(0x16, 0xff2cfa1c, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:         sigaction(SIGPOLL, 0xFFBEE518, 0xFFBEE598)      = 0
4685/1:                                   <-
libgst:_gst_set_signal_handler() = 0xff2cfa1c
4685/1:                                 -> libgst:_gst_wakeup(0x16, 0x0,
0xffbee6f8, 0xff23c008)
4685/1:                                   -> libgst:glthread_in_use(0x0,
0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
4685/1:                                   <- libgst:glthread_in_use() = 0
4685/1:                                 <- libgst:file_polling_handler() =
22
4685/1:         setcontext(0xFFBEE6F8)
4685/1:         sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBEE990, 0x00000000)      = 0
4685/1:         sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, 0xFFBEEA30, 0x00000000) = 0
4685/1:             Received signal #14, SIGALRM [default]
4685/1:                 *** process killed ***

I haven't had the time yet to try to digest what this means.. 
I'll look into it after lunch..