dbus crasher

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 21:13 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> According to the documentation for dbus_connection_send_with_reply:
> 
>       Warning:
>          if the connection is disconnected, the DBusPendingCall will be
>          set to NULL, so be careful with this.
> 
> hald sometimes crashes when my laptop resumes because this isn't being 
> checked.  I think that NetworkManager is crashing and causing the 
> problem, but I haven't tracked that down yet.  In any case, please apply 
> the attached patch to prevent hald from also crashing.

What version of NM?  NM should try to dump a stack
to /var/log/messages, /var/log/daemon.log,
or /var/log/NetworkManager.log, depending on where your distro directs
syslog output for the 'daemon' facility.  That might give some clues as
to why it seems to be dying.

Dan