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[Derek O'Connell <doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 05/04/12 16:20, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>  2012/4/5 Amos Blanton<amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > >  According to strace, when running scratch on the latest squeak-vm the
> > >  system seems to be waiting forever to several resources that do not
> > >  exist:
> > >  - /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/041870e1c79f7f3e7cc8030618300000
> > >  - /usr/share/pixmaps/DMZ-White/cursors/041870e1c79f7f3e7cc8030618300000
> > >  - /home/inniyah/.icons/DMZ-White/cursors/041870e1c79f7f3e7cc8030618300000
> > >
> > >  The funny thing is that it seems that the older machine was also
> > >  looking for them, and didn't find them, but kept trying for a couple
> > >  of times and then went on. I don't know where these numbers come from,
> > >  żany ideas?
> >  Hi Miry,
> >  I asked John Maloney, the lead developer of Scratch, and he said that those
> >  cursor paths aren't part of the Scratch code. So it sounds like it's a VM
> >  issue.
> >
> >  Sorry we can't be more helpful...
>  Lots of thanks, knowing that the problem does not lay within Scratch
>  itself is indeed very useful :)
>
>  Greetings,
>  Miry
>
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I'm having a quick dig but already in unfamiliar territory. It looks
like the attempts to open non-existent files is not the vm but normal
libXcursor behaviour (hash from cached images). So while it may still be
related to delays it's not certain. Could you run strace again and add
option to display time -t/tt? Also use option to increase length of
strings, say "-s 64", since I also notice the string on line 70 appears
longer than when you cat /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme on lines
80/81. Full strace might also have some clues (abort if taking too long).

-D