Re: [tlug] Re: Japanese in Xandros/Debian (lost the headers, sorry)

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

CL wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
>
> > Sigh, once again I deleted too quickly--this is mutt, so there's no
> > recovery. 
>
> Mutt is a program name?  I've seen you mention it as a reason for losing 

I think Mutt was the name of a dog.  I did a quick google 
and didn't hit anything, but I think the dog used to fetch 
the the author's mail (Michael Elkins?).  I did a quick 
google and can't find anything to back that up, but it's 
been around for a long time.
> '

I hit a problem recently with Thunderbird/Firefox after 
installing fonts.  The application would start then just 
exit -- no explanation as to why to stderr or to any logs I 
could find.  I found it with strace.  One of the last 
commands executed was a failed open on the font directory.

If your daemon is just starting then exiting, maybe this 
would give you a clue as to why.  But you will get lots of 
output and it can be hard to decypher.  Also, I'm not sure 
if 'strace -f' would follow the daemon process or not.
'strace -f -ofilename thing_to_execute' would at least give 
you a dump of what's happening and might give you a clue. 
Do 'man strace' for further info on strace.  What it does is 
to catch system calls your process makes.

Steve S.