[python?] DBus + gtk + thread = problems

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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Simon McVittie schrieb:
| On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 at 13:08:57 +0100, René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:
|> I yesterday discovered a bug in dbus (or dbus-python) when using dbus
|> inside of a (py)gtk application: As an example, I create a window with a
|> button. When clicking the button, a new thread is started which runs a
|> dbus statement. (see attached example)
|
| You need to tell dbus-glib to initialize libdbus' thread locks, which
| you can do via:
|
| from dbus.mainloop.glib import threads_init
| threads_init()
|
| Otherwise, libdbus will have no thread locking, and will concurrently
| modify data in multiple threads. Don't let it do that.
|
|     Simon

Hey - this is not fair =| ... I spent several hours with nailing down
the problem and creating proper backtraces - and then the solution is so
easy :)

Thanks - works ;)

- - Necoro
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