libzeitgeist

Async methods linger if daemon fails to start

Bug #986230 reported by Michal Hruby on 2012-04-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libzeitgeist	Fix Committed	Medium	Siegfried Gevatter	libzeitgeist 0.3.20

Bug Description

If the daemon fails to start (it is installed, but running it returns an error), the dbus proxy inside libzeitgeist will remain to be NULL, so all async calls will be queued and they'll never return.

A similar issue was fixed some time ago, but in that case zeitgeist wasn't installed at all and therefore the proxy was set to a non-NULL object, so the calls properly fail in that case.

Related branches

lp:~rainct/libzeitgeist/986230

Merged into lp:libzeitgeist at revision 237

Michal Hruby (community): Needs Fixing on 2012-04-23

Revision history for this message

Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote on 2012-04-21:

HOW TO REPRODUCE
1. Run ./examples/find-events from the libzeitgeist source directory and see it return a list of URIs.
2. Open /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.zeitgeist.service and change the Exec= line to some nonsense.
3. Stop the Zeitgeist daemon with "zeitgeist-daemon -q".
4. Run ./examples/find-events again. It'll show a LibZeitgeist error an hang on idefinitely (instead of aborting).

Changed in libzeitgeist:
assignee:	nobody → Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → In Progress

Michal Hruby (mhr3) on 2012-04-27

Changed in libzeitgeist:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone:	none → 0.3.20

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