Instance of Eddie already running - Linux Mint 18

[gabrielwaynel 0]

Hello,

 

In my current installation AirVPN GUI randomly crashes (Linux Mint 18). That I can deal with, problem is I cannot restart the GUI, it states Eddie is already running. Eddie is not listed in processes and cannot be "killed" as terminal says he doesn't exist.

 

Can someone tell me what is Eddie's true name?

 

Thanks.

[inradius 6]

Hello

Without more info it's harder to diagnose your situation. That said let's make a few assumptions:

a - you're running Cinnamon desktop

b- you have updated to the latest 4.13 series kernel or stable LTS for your system

c- you have plenty of available RAM

d- you have a speedy processor

e- you are using Eddie stable

 

First things first, we've experienced the same rare occurrence in Cinnamon but can't reproduce it in Xfce, Mate or Ubuntu proper. Therefore the assumption is the problem lies somewhere in Cinnamon's panel. We've tried both stable and recently the beta versions of Eddie, Cinnamon panel will crash them but not all the time. Cinnamon crashes Eddie but the instance of Eddie stays alive. So that tells us that something with Eddie and something in Cinnamon's panel aren't playing nice. Eddie doesn't crash Cinnamon as there isn't any evidence of that in the logs plus Cinnamon runs just fine before and after it kills Eddie in the panel.

Because it's a relatively rare occurrence we haven't issued a bug report and frankly, I just haven't done the requisite troubleshooting because it's difficult to reproduce. That and we are assuming again here, Cinnamon may have issues with win/mono apps. Remember Banshee? Well I certainly do and the many black screens I recovered from after it tried to bork my DE.  

What works: close out any running programs you are using. Restart the machine. Logging out and back in or restarting Cinnamon doesn't shutdown Eddie in our experience. 

There's people a lot smarter than me in this forum and have a ton of expertise with Eddie. I just don't use Eddie often enough.

Hope this shed some light and helped you out.

Peace

[gabrielwaynel 0]

Sorry no, I am not worried about the crashing.

 

I need the true process name that Eddie runs under. Should be the same name in all Debian builds. "Eddie" never shows under running processes and is not recognised by Terminal.

[inradius 6]

Ok I pointed you in the right direction when I mentioned mono but anyway, here it is

 

mono /usr/lib/AirVPN/AirVPN.exe path = wherever you put your AirVPN config files.

 

Yes it is recognized using terminal because that's where I got this. just have to know the inputs

 

BTW: when Cinnamon crashed Eddie out of the panel, this path had disappeared so there was no process assigned to stop or kill. 

Maybe your setup might be different.

Yet another example why Linux is as frustrating as it is free

[greerd 5]

This used to happen to me, on earlier than eddie 2.14.3 (beta) versions on my Mint 18.3 cinnamon. Usually I could run system monitor and kill mono (if it's still there) and openvpn, then start eddie as per normal.

 

Sometime mono would get zombified and I couldn't kill it, in this case, I'd kill it's parent, here's my notes as an example:

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​#when eddie freezes and mono is a zombie
#find mono's pid
pidof mono
#find mono's parent pid ie) if mono pid = 24442
ps o ppid 24442
#kill the parent, ie) parent pid = 24383 (which is sudo)
sudo kill -9 24383

 

​Hope this helps! 
 

[gabrielwaynel 0]

Found the file with the exe, why is there even an exe?

 

Can't find anything in my installation called "mono"

 

With Eddie running normally, there is nothing for Eddie, Mono, nor OpenVpn in my process list.

[greerd 5]

Perhaps you installed the mono free portable version? If so I think it's a sudo process.

 

Just to be complete, make sure that 'All processes' is checked in System Monitor.

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[gabrielwaynel 0]

:facepalm: Forgot all about "all processes". That was it, all is seen now. Thanks.