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Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

Posts: 507

[Solved]bash/cat errors in journal

I've been suffering thru a bunch of system lockups. When I check the journal I see a bunch of these:

bash[2850]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
bash[869]: TIFFFetchNormalTag: Warning, Incompatible type for "RichTIFFIPTC"; tag ignored.
bash[7611]: [7642:7662:0114/152350.780956:ERROR:bus.cc(393)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")

When I put the PID's into bpytop, all of them come back as Program: cat, Arguments: cat, User:pat (me).

I tried "strace -eopen cat" per the wiki (I think the -eopen is a typo, maybe -e open? Either way, nothing happens up to my boredom limit, (about 15 minutes)).

How would I go about finding out what's using 'cat'?

Last edited by Buddlespit (2021-01-14 21:37:18)

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,025

Re: [Solved]bash/cat errors in journal

If one of the processes is still running use pstree to identify what is calling cat?

Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

Posts: 507

Re: [Solved]bash/cat errors in journal

Thank you, sir.

edit- just in case anyone was wondering, the freezes were caused by conky, the program itself.  Even a blank config (I shut down each of my sections until nothing was left).

Last edited by Buddlespit (2021-01-15 12:45:34)

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