[9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[Robert Raschke]

Hi,

I sometimes get this error when starting acme in riostart.  My
riostart looks like this:

#!/bin/rc

scr=(`{cat /dev/draw/new >[2]/dev/null || status=''})
wid=$scr(11)
ht=$scr(12)

a=`{echo $wid-35 | hoc }
b=`{echo $ht-50 | hoc }

window -hide auth/fgui	# needed when drawterming
window -r 0 0 100 120 stats -lme
window -r 100 0 $a 120 faces -i
window -r 10 120 $a $b acme -l acme.dump

Any ideas why this might happen?

Robby

Re: [9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[Russ Cox]

is  your /tmp full of acme temporary files?
screen id in use must be unrelated.

russ

Re: [9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[Robert Raschke]

> is  your /tmp full of acme temporary files?

Oh wow!  I've never looked in /tmp before.  Over 200 *.*acme files.
They look like files with content from acme panes.  Is that what they
are?  Can I just delete them?  How do they get created and when are
they meant to be discarded?

I usually just turn my terminal off. I don't explicitly exit acme.

Robby

Re: [9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[boyd, rounin]

> Can I just delete them?

between fresh acme sessions i'd say yes.
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Re: [9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use

[Charles Forsyth]

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the files will not be deleted if the terminal is also the file server
(because the file server vanishes too, well before it sees that
the last reference to the file has gone)

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From: Robert Raschke <rrplan9@tombob.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme: can't create temp file: screen id in use
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:36:59 +0100
Message-ID: <698d8753cc7e6775ab9c7768dc1fc76f@tombob.com>

> is  your /tmp full of acme temporary files?

Oh wow!  I've never looked in /tmp before.  Over 200 *.*acme files.
They look like files with content from acme panes.  Is that what they
are?  Can I just delete them?  How do they get created and when are
they meant to be discarded?

I usually just turn my terminal off. I don't explicitly exit acme.

Robby