dbus call into a program -> hangs

[Thiago Macieira]

Kacper Wysocki wrote:
>Upon Meld startup, before meld goes into its mainloop, I register the
>dbus service methods and then pass control back to the application.
>Trouble is, whenever I try to invoke any of these methods from another
>application both the called and the calling application freeze - until
>the process that registered the dbus service methods is cancelled.

Did the application make it into the mainloop?

>If I run the registration of the object and methods in a standalone
>app that loops with the gobject mainloop (no meld), method invokation
>over dbus by other apps works as expected.
>
>Is there something basic that I'm missing here about dbus?

No. But the mainloop has to be spinning for remote calls to be accepted.

>Meld uses the gnomeglade.GnomeApp.main() loop, and I'm wondering
>whether that's where the problem lies, with meld not processing the
>incoming dbus requests or whatnot. If that's the case, could someone
>kindly give me some pointers as to how to deal with this?

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