[sugar] Catch duplicates on service creation?

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:10 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> I'm finding that while testing with sugar-jhbuild it's quite annoying to 
> have the service creation bomb out when an existing instance of the 
> service (presence or clipboard) is active.  That is, it would be useful 
> if it could simply catch the error and stop trying to create the service 
> if there is an org.freedesktop.Avahi.CollisionError (local name 
> collision) error on the attempt to create the services.

I think you're confusing two different things...  the PresenceService
and the Clipboard are _dbus_ services, but the Avahi.CollisionError you
speak of is an mDNS service...  Do you have some tracebacks?

Dan


> I don't believe this would have a negative effect on the run-time 
> system.  In the field it would seem better to allow the system to 
> restart with a running service, rather than failing to restart Sugar.  
> Not sure when the situation would happen on the real hardware (maybe on 
> an X server restart), but might be an idea to have the protection in there.
> 
> Just a suggestion,
> Mike
>