[BRLTTY] brltty hangs after startup

Sébastien Hinderer Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Mon Apr 4 04:58:12 EDT 2011


Hey Jason :)

> Is there anything interesting in /var/log/syslog or any other relevant log
> files?

Not that I can see...

> Try running BRLTTY with the "-l debug" option.

I did it, nothing special.

> If that doesn't help, then it's down to building BRLTTY with debug symbols,
> attaching to the process with gdb and obtaining back-traces, unless anyone
> else has ideas.

That's what I did already and how I could know that it's in asyncWait
that brltty stays blocked...

> > If I kill brltty and restart it manually everything works fine.
> > I thought it could be a daemon that causes brltty to stop working when
> > it starts, so I tried stopping and restarting a few of them to see
> > whether brltty would hang, but couldn't notice any problem.
> 
> I think this is a very unlikely cause; other daemons shouldn't be able to
> interfere with BRLTTY.

I agree !

Thanks a lot Jason !
Sébastien.


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