Crash when using HAL in multiple libraries

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:53 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> Rhythmbox has some problems running on my system, when a CD is in the
> drive. That's because Rhythmbox itself, and 2 libraries it depends on
> (libnautilus-burn and libtotemplparser) rely on HAL themselves.
> 
> #1  0x0019d4a7 in dbus_connection_dispatch () from /lib/libdbus-1.so.2
> #2  0x00a9210d in dbus_server_setup_with_g_main ()
> from /usr//lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
> #3  0x00c1109d in g_main_context_dispatch ()
> from /usr//lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x00c1432f in g_main_context_check ()
> from /usr//lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x00c146d9 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr//lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #6  0x029d2594 in gtk_main () from /usr//lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #7  0x0806d2f5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfd88f64) at main.c:375
> 
> No asserts, or anything like that. I was wondering whether someone could
> take a quick look at this bit of code from Totem's playlist parser and
> let me know whether I'm doing something plain stupid with HAL. I mostly
> just copied code from the other 2 programs involved, which might explain
> the problems.

You might want to try to use dbus_bus_get_private() instead of
dbus_bus_get() in your libraries. Notwithstanding, this should work so
it may be a bug in libhal or libdbus (more likely it's libhal). But it
would be interesting to see if using _private() makes a difference.

     David