Crash when using HAL in multiple libraries

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 10:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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.

Using get_private seems to work just fine, so I implemented that as a
work-around for now.

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>