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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:56:55 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        glewis@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9"
Message-ID:  <20090917135655.GA3705@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20090917134024.GA2350@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > The window does appear (just using simple gnuplot> plot sin(x), and
> > > the terminal is set to 'wxt', but nothing ever apears in the window.
> >=20
> > The wxt terminal is only available when gnuplot is compiled with the wx=
Widgets
> > toolkit. Try using the plain x11 terminal, and see if that works better?
>=20
> yes, that works fine! Thank you!
>=20
> So the problem must be with wxgtk2-2.8.10_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.8.10_1 ?

Looks that way. Since gnuplot works very well with plain X11, I've never
bothered building it with wxWidgets. Rebuild gnuplot without wxWidgets to
circumvent the problem.

> How can I kill the offending gnuplot process?

You can try 'kill -9'. If the process is stuck in the 'D' state after you've
tried that, you'll have to reboot. :-)

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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