exmh suddenly spawns zombies
Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to
reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply.
Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender),
exmh shows this message:
Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ...
But exmh doesn't start the xterm. I do see this in the exmh log:
Exwin_Toplevel .log 80x20+177+270
After a few minutes, a background wish process is started:
/usr/bin/wish -f /usr/bin/exmh-bg exmh /usr/lib/exmh /usr/b (<==the line is
cut off here)
Then this process is zombie-ized after a couple of minutes.
Now, exmh's reply button used to start the xterm just fine. I don't know
when this odd behaviour started. (I've been gone for a week, but thought
I'd used the reply button since I got back last night; am not really sure
what happened in the last day to tell the truth.) I can successfully
execute 'xterm -e vi' from the command line. Whatever is causing the problem
is not specific to one particular (e.g., badly formed) message; I've tried
and failed to reply to many messages.
The list of possibly relevant packages is attached below. Obviously, any
hints would be very much appreciated.
Susan Kleinmann
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ii exmh 1.6.9-2 An X user interface for MH mail.
ii expect 5.19.0-1 The expect/expectk programs and libraries.
ii nvi 1.34-13 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi.
ii tcl74 7.4p3-4 The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.4 - Run-T
ii tcl74-dev 7.4p3-4 The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.4 - Devel
ii tcl75 7.5p1-1 The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.5 - Run-T
ii tclX 7.4a-p2-1 Extended Tcl (TclX).
ii tk40 4.0p3-3 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.0 - Run-Ti
ii tk40-dev 4.0p3-3 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.0 - Develo
ii tk41 4.1-1 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.1 - Run-Ti
ii tkdiff 1.0b9-3 A graphical "diff" utility.
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