Jim Hayward <jimhayward(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
On an updated F8T2 x86_64 system, I can't run Eclipse as a normal
user.
Eclipse will run fine if I launch it as root. I don't see anything in
the log files.
FWIW, I'm seeing exactly the same thing with emacs after this morning's
ill-advised update. I traced it down to this line in my .emacs:
(require 'mh-e)
Now, the world has been telling me to upgrade to an at least 1990's era
mailer for a while now, but I'm a little set in my ways and would like
things to work.
FWIW, the hang appears associated with this:
[pid 4426] open("/h/corbet/Mail/context", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK <unfinished
...>
[pid 4426] fcntl(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}
<unfinished ...>
If I run emacs as root (with the same .emacs file) everything works.
Kernel is 2.6.23-rc6 (unchanged from before the update), basic ext3
filesystem.
jon
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