Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2008-01-06 Thread Thorsten Pferdekämper
On Monday 31 December 2007 12:36, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > Hi, > > I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why it is > always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kill program" message in main-0.log. > Here is what I believe why this is: > > Basically, the problem is that

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2008-01-06 Thread Thorsten Pferdekämper
On Monday 31 December 2007 19:27, Duncan Webb wrote: > Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > > On Monday 31 December 2007 16:25, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:36 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > >>> I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why > >>> it

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Duncan Webb
Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > On Monday 31 December 2007 16:25, Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:36 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: >>> I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why >>> it is >>> always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kill program" mes

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:12 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > I do not really understand, what this has to do with my problem. As I can see > in the coding (at least in 1.7.3), the playing stuff goes through childapp > which does not use kaa (?). > ...or are you trying to say that I should h

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:58 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Anyway, I guess Thorsten is talking about childapp.py in Freevo 1.x > which also has the same code base (IIRC the design of pynotifier.popen > was inspired by that code). But a rewrite in kaa.base won't help here. Oops. My misunderstanding.

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Dirk Meyer
Andreas Büsching wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:25 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:36 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: >> > I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why >> > it is >> > always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kil

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Andreas Büsching
Hi Jason, On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:25 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:36 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > > I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why > > it is > > always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kill program" message in > > main-0.

Re: [Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:36 +, Thorsten Pferdekämper wrote: > I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why > it is > always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kill program" message in > main-0.log. > Here is what I believe why this is: I was using kaa.notifier.Process in

[Freevo-devel] "PANIC can't kill program" even though program is dead

2007-12-31 Thread Thorsten Pferdekämper
Hi, I just wondered why channel switching needs so long on my box and why it is always accompagnied by a "PANIC can't kill program" message in main-0.log. Here is what I believe why this is: Basically, the problem is that os.waitpid and subprocess.Popen.poll do not really work together. It seem