* Donn Washburn
* Donn Washburn
[12-10-10 23:05]: Nothing wrong here. It worked correctly until I did and "zypper dup". Now it just fails I removed it with "rpm -e tvtime". Reloaded it "zypper in tvtime". Went back to X and from a xterm called tvtime.
Ok, now you have started a process, tvtime.
It came up with a blue image and failed to work. Closed it. I then tried it from a desktop icon - it failed./crashed without a bootsplash or image. Again back to the xterm - It showed in the following error.
~> tvtime Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/donn/.tvtime/tvtime.xml Cannot run two instances of tvtime with the same configuration.
The process, tvtime, that you closed failed to close.
~> locate tvtime.xml /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml /usr/share/doc/packages/tvtime/html/default.tvtime.xml /home/donn/.tvtime/tvtime.xml /usr/share/man/de/man5/tvtime.xml.5.gz /usr/share/man/es/man5/tvtime.xml.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/tvtime.xml.5.gz
again, this is just a listing of directories/files on your system.
~> ps ax | grep tvtime 16292 ? D 0:03 [tvtime]
~> kill -9 116392 16292 ? D 0:03 [tvtime]
~> ps ax | grep tvtime 16292 ? D 0:03 [tvtime]
As root - in a xterm - It comes up but can not be killed using the image "X" or Close as root --> ps ax | grep tvtime 16292 ? D 0:03 [tvtime] 16486 ? D< 0:00 tvtime
You now have two instances (processes) of tvtime, both in state "D". from the little used man pages which explain the results you received above: <quote> PROCESS STATE CODES Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of a process. D Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) R Running or runnable (on run queue) S Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete) T Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced. W paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel) X dead (should never be seen) Z Defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by its parent. </quote>
From my limited experiennce, I believe you have a "hung" process which cannot be cleared w/o dropping to runlevel 1 or a reboot. (I may be wrong here. Someone need to clarify.)
I would file a bug report against this version of tvtime and return to
the previous version.
zypper rm tvtime
zypper se -s --match-exact tvtime
zypper in tvtime-