Comment 8 for bug 274747

Ubuntu 8.10, pida 0.5.1-5. On starting it you get the small gray window appear in the centre of the screen, but it stays empty; the "love" message doesn't appear. Nothing ever happens. Closing the window using the menu on the panel icon results in "it's not responding, force quit" which can kill it.

strace suggests it's getting stuck on futex(2). I suspect a race condition as one of the attempts to start it, identical to all the others, succeeded.

Note, a separate issue is choosing Emacs for the embedded editor without having Emacs installed. Then it just stops with "[Errno 2] No such file or directory" because a child process tried "execve("/usr/local/sbin/emacs", ["emacs", "--parent-id", "81789128", "-f", "server-start", "-l", "/home/peter/.pida2/pida_emacs_in"...], [/* 22 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT" for every directory in PATH.