Re: fam problems
Adam Skutt wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
I, as I am sure many of your do, suffer from the "fam problem".
Basically it goes like this: I will be working away quite happily, I
go to open a file and fam hits 100% cpu load and never stops. This has
happened with all my Debian boxes (testing and unstable on i386 and
pure64).
One easy way to try this is to hit a mounted remote file and not have
portmap running. famd will go into 'D' and never leave.
Use gamin instead. FAM is dead technology.
However, interesting, even though gamin is supposed to be a drop-in
replacement for FAM, I've had it break with courier-imap before.
Adam
LOL. This goes from bad to worse. I ran
apt-get -u install gamin
and got
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgamin0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fam libfam0c102
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gamin libgamin0
which I thought "yeah great that looks about right, Gamin really is a
drop in replacement for fam". Just after it got the packages though apt
comes back with the stuff below (a list of about 100 packages that
depend on libfam0c102). Correctly me if I am wrong here but I thought
apt was supposed to resolve dependency issues _before_ installing and
removing packages.
dpkg: libfam0c102: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
kaboodle depends on libfam0c102.
ksnapshot depends on libfam0c102.
kmoon depends on libfam0c102.
...
...
Anyway, should I re-install libfam (fam doesn't depend on libfam for
some reason) or will the gamin libraries act as replacements? I have
tried a couple of the applications on the list and they seem to still
work but maybe I haven't tried any of the bits that actually rely on
libfam yet :o)
Thanks, Graham
PS Is there some technical reason why none of the Debian mailing lists
don't set the Reply-To header?
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