DBus service and interface are available, but aren't responding

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:19 -0600, Adam Olsen wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've got an application in which I've been using dbus which has worked
> ok until I tried moving the client code to a place before importing
> things like gtk and gstreamer.  I wanted the client to test the
> service and see if it was available because doing this before
> importing those libraries will speed things up a bit. 
> 
> This code works:
> 
> def test_dbus(bus, interface):
>     obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.DBus',
> '/org/freedesktop/DBus') 
>     dbus_iface = dbus.Interface(obj	, 'org.freedesktop.DBus') 
>     avail = dbus_iface.ListNames() 
>     return interface in avail
> 
> if test_dbus(bus, 'org.exaile.DBusInterface'):
>     remote_object = bus.get_object("org.exaile.DBusInterface",
>     "/DBusInterfaceObject")
> iface = dbus.Interface (remote_object, "org.exaile.DBusInterface")
> iface.test_service("testing dbus service")
> 
> up until the line that says "iface.test_service", and then it hangs
> until I get the message:
> 
> DbusException: No reply within the specified time
> 
> I've got gobject.threads_init() called before this, I'm not sure what
> is wrong as this code used to work before I moved the code.
> 
> Adam

Can you post the current code and a diff between the two?

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>