George Kiagiadakis wrote: > reassign 562026 consolekit 0.4.1-2 > tags 562026 + patch > thanks > > After some hours of debugging, I finally found the cause of this bug. It is a > race condition, so no wonder why it is only reproducable on some systems. > > What happens is: > 1) kdm (or whatever else, I can even reproduce the bug with dbus-send) tries > to call a method from the /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager object, using > the org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager interface. > 2) ConsoleKit is not running, so dbus-daemon activates it. > 3) console-kit-daemon starts and registers the service. > 4) dbus-daemon recognizes the service registration, tries to find the Manager > object, fails, returns error. > 5) console-kit-daemon registers the Manager object at the same time that dbus- > daemon returns the error. > > Second call to the same method obviously succeeds. > Now if you are lucky the kernel scheduler gives some more time to console-kit- > daemon before it switches back to executing dbus-daemon code, it will > succeed. > I guess there was a change in the scheduler of linux 2.6.32 that made this > bug > more easy to spot. > > So, I have modified console-kit-daemon a bit, so that it registers Manager > before it registers the service name and it works fine. Patch attached.
Hi, upstream already has a fix for this in current Git master: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/commit/?id=2418840248f07025ad0edc96ed17e03ce5e47f3e I would prefer to pull the patch from upstream Git. Can you confirm that the above patch also works for you? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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