long (25 seconds) pause when starting hal-device-manager

[John (J5) Palmieri]

I've further pinpointed the issue and we are working on resolving it in
dbus.  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-March/004390.html

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:07 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> So it seems my patch did not fix the issue.  It is really weird due to
> the fact we get stuck in poll once consistently and then all subsequent
> calls just go happily on their way after the poll times out.  It really
> has been a pita to debug.  I know what causes it.  We fire off an
> introspect under the hood and then block for it to return if a blocking
> call is made.  This works fine for three of the calls which introspect
> the bus but we block on the first introspect to HAL.  Funny thing is if
> we don't connect to the signals (the cause of the first three
> introspects) everything works fine.  Also if we block for introspect
> immediately, instead of waiting for a blocking call nothing bad happens.
> Workaround is to add result[1].block() to the end of the _Introspect
> method in proxies.py.  
> 
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:38 -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > Hey John,
> > 
> > >> I think this is a well-known problem with introspection and the python
> > >> bindings. John?
> > > 
> > > I have a fix I need to commit.
> > 
> > Have this been committed?
> > 
> > I'm seeing a much longer delay on Solaris, actually never seen it time 
> > out even after two hours wait. I'd rather start debugging with your fix, 
> > since I'm not a Python expert and it'd be a significant time investment 
> > for me.
> > 
> > 
> > -Artem.
> 
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