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- To work, tested new USB DVD writer - seems to work
nicely, good. Dug for the factory debuginfo repository, and finally
found
it, installed misc. debuginfo packages. Built SLED10 dbus package
& started code-reading.
- Finally found the
hideous bug in dbus causing asynchronous messages to be lost in certain
cases, on slower machines, from short-lived processes, (sometimes);
urgh - shutdown/race conditions are always fun.
- Started chasing a fix - unfortunately the obvious fix doesn't
work - and worse, in doing that I notice that dbus adds duplicate poll
records for the same fd, that -sounds- like it should work fine, except
for the
kernel bug, still 2.4 is old; and of course it's less efficient.
Worse the (separate) OUT poll is processed before the IN poll.
- Call with JP, Kelli's staff, etc. Finally got a semi-serious
patch for dbus that fixes the problem, and makes my NetworkManager setup
work reliably: good. Chat with Dirk, DE meeting, call with Julian Seward.
Failed to get to most of the important thing I was supposed to do today:
bother.
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the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
