On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 07:37 +0200, David Eriksson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:29 +0100, Dr J A Gow wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > At last. I think I have finally tracked down the cause of these random
> > and seemingly untraceable segfaults, 'broken pipe' messages, and sudden
> > exitting of the sync process when used with dbus >= 0.80. It turns out
> > that the dbus main loop is not thread-safe unless a function is called
> > to initialize it. Sane enough, but although this function is buried in
> > the dbus-python API docs, no mention of its requirement in a
> > multithreaded environment is clearly stated anywhere else. Least of all
> > the dbus-python tutorial..... Aaarrgh!
> >
> > So, could anyone who is running a current sync-engine with either
> > dbus-python < 0.80 and dbus-python > 0.80 please update from SVN and
> > test. I have tested this with dbus-python 0.82 on a 64 bit system, but
> > it would be great to know if it performs correctly on 32 bit systems.
> > Shouldn't make any difference, but you never know....
> >
> > Also, I can't test with dbus-python < 0.80 as I no longer have it on my
> > development box. I have added code to ensure that the sync-engine plugin
> > should now work with both versions, but this new code is untested on
> > these old versions of dbus-python. If possible, could someone please
> > confirm that I haven't broken support for these older versions?
>
> Nice catch! Thanks a lot for investigating this!
>
> \David
An addendum: I have (today) tested the code on both dbus-python < 0.80
as well as dbus-python > 0.80, both 64 and 32 bit. Works just fine on
both platforms. I recommend updating your sync-engine install to pick up
these changes.
John.
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