[sugar] Re: Lockup

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I start the latest sugar, it lock ups for a few seconds. Ctrl+cing 
> I get this trace:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "shell/sugar", line 63, in ?
>    session.start()
>  File "/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/shell/Session.py", line 
> 77, in start
>    shell.start()
>  File "/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/shell/Shell.py", line 
> 59, in start
>    self._owner = ShellOwner()
>  File "/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/shell/Owner.py", line 
> 35, in __init__
>    self._service = self._pservice.register_service(nick, 
> PRESENCE_SERVICE_TYPE)
>  File 
> "/home/marco/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/sugar/presence/PresenceService.py", 
> line 182, in register_service
>    serv_op = self._ps.registerService(name, stype, properties, 
> address, port, domain)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in 
> __call__
>    ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in 
> __call__
>    reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, 
> timeout)
>  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 458, in 
> dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
>
> If I comment out self._owner = ShellOwner() the situation improves but 
> I still get a few seconds delay that I don't remember we was having 
> before... Maybe that's unrelated though.
>

Ok I guess the few seconds delay is the sleep(3) after running presence 
service. We definately need something better there ;)
I wonder if using dbus activation would be a good idea for this case? I 
can't think of downsides but... I didn't think that hard :P

Marco