Re: ORBit bug (or panel bug?)

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:05:50 -0500, Jason Tackaberry <tack@dok.org> wrote:

>** ERROR **: Unknown error on directory creation of /tmp/orbit-tack (Success)
>
>aborting...
>Aborted (core dumped)
>
>If I rm -rf /tmp/orbit-tack, however, panel runs.  But any applet I load after
>that gives me that error also.  Running panel again also gives me the error
>again.  Here is a backtrace:
>
>Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>0x4049b781 in __kill ()
>(gdb) bt
>#0  0x4049b781 in __kill ()
>#1  0x4049b5af in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
>#2  0x4049c7bf in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:83
>#3  0x400b42a3 in g_logv () at gmessages.c:589
>#4  0x400b435e in g_log () at gmessages.c:589
>#5  0x400428e2 in ORBit_ORB_make_usock_connection () at orb.c:192

It is doing this because it is receiving an error other than "EEXIST" from
mkdir("/tmp/orbit-tack", 0700);

If you could strace it and find out exactly what the error is, that would
help in finding the problem.

-- Elliot
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