On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:36 +0300, ext Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: .... > > The sensible solution is to pull the desktop down and restart it along > > with the X server, instead of panicking and rebooting the device. > > Unfortunately, our init system (osso-af-init) is so horribly designed > > that it's almost impossible to do[0] without just blowing away our init > > system and starting again _from scratch_. Which is arguably what we > > should do, anyway. > > The desktop (Home) is nowadays restartable, so we would still need to > restart other X clients. It should be possible to move X clients' > startup scripts from /etc/osso-af-init to some other directory where > they could be run again to restart the stuff in case the X server > crashed. (At least clipboard, sapwood, matchbox, osso-connectivity-ui, > and hildon-input-methods.) > > I don't see any big remaining problem here...
Hey, now I remember what was the issue here! The problem was that if we restart stuff for crashed X server, then we cannot use dsmetool anymore to e.g. restart sapwood if it crashed (which is what happens now). So, we would need to lose these individual restarting magic (for clipboard, sapwood, matchbox, osso-connectivity-ui, hildon-input-methods, and hildon-desktop) in favor of the X server. That is, if you want to restart these processes after the X server crashed, it's possible, but then we would never know if clipboard, sapwood, matchbox, osso- connectivity-ui, HIM, or hildon-desktop crashed. The solution could be extending DSME's magical capabilities to support "groups" of processes that would all be restarted if something happens (X server crashes). BR; Kimmo > > BR, Kimmo > > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > > > [0]: I had an ndm for exactly this internally, but due to the init > > scripts being so incredibly broken both by horrible design and > > awful implementation, the init scripts always returned failure, > > even if they succeeded. Go figure. > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-developers mailing list > > maemo-developers@maemo.org > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
