[PlanetCCRMA] pd-gui doesn't appear

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:39, jan hendrik brueggemeier wrote:
> i noticed that i havn't had set the hostname of my machine. so i did set
> it, cause i had vague impression that this may be part of the problem.
> 
> situation now is that starting pd causes a reboot (!) of my machine.
> i tried it 3 time in a row and everytime my machine crashed and restarted.

Wow. 
You mean the whole machine?
Or just the X server?

Do you see anything in /var/log/messages after the dust settles?
-- Fernando

> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 04:53, jan hendrik brueggemeier wrote:
> > > hi there,
> > >
> > > i am running ccrma on FC3.
> > >
> > > no matter if i start pd in cmdline as user or as root with suffix like
> > > (-rt -alsa) or with out. no gui appears, but a process seems to be
> > > running:
> > >
> > >  5832 pts/3    S      0:00  |       \_ -bash
> > >  5864 pts/3    S+     0:00  |           \_ pd -rt -alsa
> > >  5865 pts/3    S+     0:00  |               \_ /usr/lib/pd/bin/pd-gui 5400
> > >  5866 pts/3    S+     0:00  |               \_ /usr/lib/pd/bin/pd-watchdog
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >  5939 pts/3    S+     0:00  |   \_ pd
> > >  5940 pts/3    S+     0:00  |       \_ /usr/lib/pd/bin/pd-gui 5400
> > >
> > >
> > > no gui accurs.
> > >
> > > any hints for me?
> >
> > Hmmm, not really. I tried both on my fc3 laptop and it pops up the gui.
> > I wonder what could be happening. Maybe you can strace it to see if it
> > is hanging in some system call? ("strace pd", that will generate tons of
> > output...)