* Helge Hafting <[email protected]> [090227 11:16]: > Klaus Kurzmann wrote:
> >> org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage > >> org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage.RequestResource Display > > which requests the resource until you release it. That way you can wrap > > for example tangogps between a call to request display and a call to > > release display... > This is currently very fragile. yep... at least it was :-) should be fixed now. > Because it didn't work at all, I upgraded SHR last night. > Today, the backlight stayed on, I could see my map all the way to work. > I then quit tangogps and expected the backlight to time out. > It did not! So no I have a phone with the backlight stuck on, > a very power hungry condition. > Hm - on closer inspection I see that ophonekitd has crashed. > Its resources are not released unconditionally when the process ends? > I didn't notice the crash at first, because the phone works so well > without. I can send and receive SMS and call out. (the new message > doesn't show, but the sound is there and I can read it in the messages > app.) The only thing missing is that there is no way to answer the > phone when it rings. > I restarted ophonekitd and tried to release the resource again. > ophonekitd ended without error message, and mdbus complained: > /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage: ReleaseResource failed: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply > I hope this isn't too hard to fix. I plan on using scripts requesting > the CPU for all data-gathering apps (tangogps, cellhunter) so the phone > don't suspend while they are in use. > And I also plan on requesting the display for mokomaze and tangogps. > Because these should be on for a long time without touch input. > Actually, I have two tangogps icons - one that keeps the backlight on > for car navigation, and one that merely reqeust the cpu for data > gathering without external power. > I assume ophonekitd uses reference counting, so multiple apps can > request the display/cpu at the same time? And release one after another, > with suspend happening only after the last user has quit? it did not... but does now. > Is there a way to check what resources are held and by who? Sort of like > a "ls" command for resources? Is it possible to forcibly release the > display so the phone can work normally again - except for the obvious > reboot way? in addition to the ophonekitd bugs there was also a bug in frameworkd regarding the release of the display resource. All that should be fixed now and hit you with opkg update & upgrade > Helge Hafting Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
