Re: Opening an app launches four instances of it

I'd start with running strace on the app as it loads up.

Or is it truss? I'm confusing my linux and solaris.

Siri Amrit Kaur spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> I just got Slackware 10.1 installed yesterday. I installed some games that
> I always add after installing, like Maelstrom and LBreakout2. I had to
> install a bunch of SDL libraries with them. I installed them from /tmp as
> root.
> Here's the wierd part:
>
> When I launch one of these games, it opens up fine, but in the taskbar I
> see another instance of it trying to open, as well. It eventually times
> out, but the first instance stays and plays normally. If I open a terminal
> and run "ps -aux | more" I see four instances of the game! They have
> consecutive PID numbers.
>
> I remember this was a problem with Slack 9.2 and Maelstrom. It didn't
> happen in 10.0. Does anybody know why this is happening, or how I can learn
> what's going on?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Siri Amrit
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