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

[Artem Kachitchkine]

Thank you!

-Artem.

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 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.