Re: linux emulation problems

["Pouya D. Tafti" <pouya%san-serriffe.org@localhost>]

On 2 January 2011 02:25, Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:
> I've been trying out the linux emulation in current (i386) and while many
> things that wouldn't work previously now do I'm stricking two significant
> problems:
>
> Matlab (which someone reported running for them on amd64) runs for a random
> but short period of time then crashes.


Hi,

I was the one who reported MATLAB working.  Impressively enough,
MATLAB has never crashed for me so far; but I almost always run it in
a terminal (I just tried the GUI to see if it worked, which it did, or
seemed to at any rate).  Specifically, I run it through the wrapper
script

#!/emul/linux/bin/sh

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/bin/matlab -glnxa64 -nosplash -nodesktop $*
rm ~/java.log.*


This is not to say that I do not use graphics, since I do a bit of
plotting from time to time.  On my machine I have:

laptop$ uname -a
NetBSD laptop 5.99.40 NetBSD 5.99.40 (TP_X201_FR_CH) #6: Sun Nov 28
10:37:10 CET 2010
pouya@laptop:/usr/objdir/sys/arch/amd64/compile/TP_X201_FR_CH amd64

and version  7.11.0.584 (R2010b) 64-bit (glnxa64) of MATLAB (16 Aug. 2010).

Pouya


>
> eclipse runs for a random but short period of time then either crashes or
> hangs. ÂAt the moment mostly hangs. ÂThe same eclipse runs fine on 5.1 with
> suse100 packages. ÂWhen it hangs ktruss shows that its looping doing:
>
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âgettimeofday(0xb67ff020, 0) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âgettimeofday(0xb67fef80, 0) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âclock_gettime(0, 0xb67fef5c) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âfutex(0xa6c98f74, 0x80, 0x1, 0xb67fef5c, 0x1,
> 0xb67ff020) Err#60 ETIMEDOUT
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âfutex(0xb67ff068, 0x81, 0x1, 0xb67ff068, 0xb6a09428,
> 0xb67ff0d8) = 1
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âgettimeofday(0xb67ff020, 0) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âgettimeofday(0xb67fef80, 0) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âclock_gettime(0, 0xb67fef5c) = 0
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âfutex(0xa6c98f74, 0x80, 0x1, 0xb67fef5c, 0x1,
> 0xb67ff020) Err#60 ETIMEDOUT
> Â26234 Â 2354 eclipse Âfutex(0xb67ff068, 0x81, 0x1, 0xb67ff068, 0xb6a09428,
> 0xb67ff0d8) = 1
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> cheers
> mark
>