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Registered: 2007-07-04

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fam on XFCE4

I have fam listed in the daemons array of rc.conf and on boot it calls portmap, and both fam and portmap load fine. However, I noticed my desktop was not refreshing loadd fam again with "/etc/rc.d/fam start" and it successfully loaded. Still the desktop did not refresh itself so to test I did "/etc/rc.d/fam stop" which failed indicating that fam crashes immediately after it loads. Also, when I shutdown the computer, the "Stopping File Alteration Monitor" message outputs a failure as well.

I'm using arch x86_64, latest kernel and everything, any suggestions?

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

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Re: fam on XFCE4

Anything in /var/log/errors.log?

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Registered: 2007-07-04

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Re: fam on XFCE4

yes, famd[5568]: can't register with portmapper. i know that fam calls portmap to start though and at boot it successfully launches and successfully stops at halt...

here is my daemons from rc.conf: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network !netfs crond hal fam wicd cpufreqd alsa laptop-mode)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: fam on XFCE4

It might seem a strange suggestion, but try moving fam to the end of the daemon list.  I was having trouble with loading and that seemed to fix it....

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spaceturnip

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From: Kashiwa, Japan

Registered: 2007-02-28

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Re: fam on XFCE4

Have you tried gamin?  I was having similar issues with desktop updates when I was suing fam.  In addition when opening thunar for the first time it could take up to 5 minutes before a window came up.  I built gamin with the pkgbuild in aur and everything is working fine for me now.  The pkgbuild is a little out of date but you can build the newest version of gamin just by changing the pkgver in the pkgbuild.

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: fam on XFCE4

if you have networkmanager in your rc.conf DAEMONS, make sure to put fam _after_ networkmanager. fam before networkmanager causes fam to start, but not work. several people had this problem already.

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Registered: 2007-07-04

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Re: fam on XFCE4

putting fam last definitely helped, it still crashes at initial boot but after a "/etc/rc.d/fam start" it loads fine although it still complains about not registering with portmapper. is gamin any different than fam?

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: fam on XFCE4

is gamin any different than fam?

gamin does only monitor local filesystems, whereas fam takes care of both local and networked fs

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Registered: 2007-07-04

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Re: fam on XFCE4

i've build gamin with aurbuild but how do i start it? it isn't a daemon...

spaceturnip

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From: Kashiwa, Japan

Registered: 2007-02-28

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Re: fam on XFCE4

Gamin isn't a deamon, so you don't need to put anything in rc.conf.  Just having it installed should be enough, but you'll probably need to at least restart X before XFCE will pick up that its there.