hal-device-manager crash

[Igor Pruchanskiy]

Unfortunately this did not work. I installed your packages and restarted 
dbus-1 but
i get exactly the same error...

i

Sjoerd Simons wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:08:31AM -0700, Igor Pruchanskiy wrote:
>  
>
>>I seem to have similar problem on Debian (sid)
>>
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 15, in ?
>>   DeviceManager()
>> File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 73, in 
>>__init__
>>   self.update_device_list()
>> File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 166, in 
>>update_device_list
>>   self.virtual_root = self.build_device_tree()
>> File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 238, in 
>>build_device_tree
>>   properties = device_dbus_obj.GetAllProperties()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dbus.py", line 162, in __call__
>>   reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, 
>>5000)
>> File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 513, in 
>>dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
>>dbus_bindings.DBusException: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by 
>>message bus)
>>
>>That kills hald. Also if i do `lshal` hald dies.
>>    
>>
>
>This is probably the same problem as debian bug #261462[0]. Which is caused by
>hal having invalid utf-8 on this properties (see mail earlier on the list).
>
>You can try the test packages  i've put online [1]. These will print a warning
>when hal tries to put a invalid utf-8 string in a property when you run hald in
>the console.  
>
>I'll propably send a patch to debians hal maintainer, which ensures that
>every property that gets set is valid utf-8. Which is basically the wrong
>solution, but we want a stable hald in debian and the patch can/should be 
>removed as soon it's fixed upstream the right way (TM). 
>
>  Sjoerd
>0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261462
>1: http://luon.net/~sjoerd/hal/testpkg/
>  
>

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