[Gtkwave-users] gtkwave hangs on startup

[Thomas D. <rab...@gm...>]

Hi all,

just to preface my post, I'm not a newbie at this and have been using
verilog simulators and wave form viewers including gtkwave for a
_very_ long time (yes I'm officially old), although I'm not ruling out
a stupid "you forgot to plug it in" type mistake.

I'm running fc8 on a dual core system and using VNC as my display. The
first time I fired up gtkwave there was a very brief message displayed
in a window about some random font errors and then nothing. I've since
uninstalled gtkwave, reinstalled using yum, uninstalled and built from
source. All to no avail.

When ever I run gtkwave I get nothing on the display.
Top shows nothing is being a resource hog.

strace gtkwave -v <my vcd file> shows that gtkwave is wating for a
read from the command line:

[ stuff before this deleted for brevity ]
open("/home/thomasd/.gtkwaverc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0666, st_size=6140, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7f77000
read(5, "#\n# sample rc file\n#\nsplash_disa"..., 4096) = 4096
read(5, "el \"/Search/Pattern Search\" (nul"..., 4096) = 2044
read(5, "", 4096) = 0
close(5) = 0
munmap(0xb7f77000, 4096) = 0
write(2, "\nGTKWave Analyzer v3.1.8 (w)1999"..., 43
GTKWave Analyzer v3.1.8 (w)1999-2008 BSI

) = 43
mmap2(NULL, 2002944, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7b73000
fstat64(0, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7b72000
read(0,
[ end of trace ]

pressing enter here or typing into the console just returns the string
and the program returns to the read() line.

This can be reproduced on an fc7 P4 system and fc8 P4 system, using
VNC or the normal display.  The only odd thing about all these
machines is that I've recently named them all and added lines to the
/etc/hosts file so that I can cue them a little more easily. Could
this be an issue?

Any help would be appreciated as this is driving me crazy.


Regards, Thomas Dejanovic.
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