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kristopher004

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Registered: 2014-06-30

Posts: 33

empty orbit folder in tmp crashes codewarrior under wine [solved]

I have a class that requires freescale codewarrior, installed and got it working under wine. However I had a problem where if I opened Thunderbird or Firefox codewarrior would crash on startup until I rebooted the computer, even after I closed Firefox/Thunderbird. I diffed processes, environment variables, and modules before and after I opened Firefox and couldn't find the problem. Then I checked tmpfs directories and found the culprit. When I open Firefox or Thunderbird a empty directory named /tmp/orbit-$USER appears, when I delete this directory codewarrior can be started again. I tried a fresh arch install in a kvm and this directory doesn't appear when starting Firefox. I also manually created this directory and it does not cause codewarrior to crash on startup. Anyone know what creates this folder, and how to get rid of it?

Edit: uninstalled orbit2 and pyorbit and after a reboot no more orbit folder in /tmp when I start firefox/thunderbird and no more crashes from codewarrior.

If anyone else has the case of the mysterious orbit folder and a wine program unable to start:

# pacman -Rc orbit2 pyorbit

Last edited by kristopher004 (2015-03-06 19:33:28)