Hi,
I’m experiencing some strange behavior when trying to start ROOT if no internet connection is available.
This is somehow the opposite that was reported in a previous post (/viewtopic.php?p=27484).
Whenever I try to launch ROOT if no net is available or I have restricted access to the net (e.g. a hotel network…), it can take up to ~30s. Here’s the output I get doing “time root”:
[andrea@Cerbero:~] time root -l -q
root [0]
real 0m32.146s
user 0m0.106s
sys 0m0.029s
I’m running ROOT 5.26 on a MacOSX10.6… Does anybody have an idea of what it could be?
Thanks in advance,
andrea
If so why do I see all kind of analysis code at the end of the trace? if so can you check you ~/.rootlogon.C or ./.rootlogon.C as Rene asked, if not please run just with -b -q and you can see for yourself in the dtruss trace where it spents 30 seconds waiting.
That’s strange, indeed. I have un-aliased the root command before executing dtruss (for me, root stands for root -l rootLogon.C), and indeed, if I run root after un-aliasing, the rootLogon.C is not loaded at startup.
I don’t know why I see traces of that (and of other macros I runned yesterday) when executing dtruss…
I don’t know if this can provide any insight, but it seems to me that it gets stuck during this process:
23749491 kevent(0x3, 0x0, 0x0) = -1 Err#4
(23749491 should be ~23 seconds…)
I haven’t got the slightest idea of what this could mean.
If it is clear to you what’s happening, I would be grateful, otherwise I’m starting to get used to the idea of not using root when I’m not in my office
(for the record, I have tried with pre-compiled binaries of different root releases (down to 5.10) and compiling the latest 5.27 from source, but the behavior is always the same).
I am puzzled as I cannot reproduce this on any of my Macs without network connection. Also Google does not help. Could you pass by my office at CERN with the machine?
Hello, I’m facing the same problem on my mac. Actually, when is it rebooted and not connected to network root starts quickly. However, if I put the computer to sleep and then open it again (still no connection to network), Root starts very slowly. I have found out (using the process snapshot in the activity monitor) that it stops on TUnixSystem:GetHostByName(char const*). So obviously, it’s trying to get the IP address, but stops on a timeout.
How to fix this? Once I connect to network, all is fine. But today I did some work on a plane and airlines are still not always providing an internet connection
yes, somebody else reported a while back the same issue, which was then found to be a misconfigured hostname lookup when not connected to the network. Can you redo the experiment and tell me what is in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts when things hang?
resolv.conf is automatically generated and in the case when the problem appears it does not exists as no network interface is connected. /etc contains just a symbolic link which points to non-existent file.
/etc/hosts :
Host Database
localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
