On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Klesel, Roman wrote:

> Some applications occasionally fail to pop up. That means I start them
> from the command line they load into memory ( I can observe HD aktivity
> ) but then nothing happenes. Sometimes after a minute a or two the

When you use "ps auxwwww" do you see the applications running?

You may also be able to run the application(s) with gdb or ktrace to see
where it is failing.  For example:

  ktrace -id gnumeric # this will create ./ktrace.out file
  kdump | less +G # +G jumps to end

Good luck,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/