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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: dbus remaining windows port issues was Re: moving file descriptor
From:       Romain Pokrzywka <romain () kdab ! com>
Date:       2010-04-21 10:17:15
Message-ID: 201004211217.18179.romain () kdab ! com
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Thanks Ralf for that summary,

I'm actually willing to pay big money to whoever can find and fix issue #2 :)
I've given it a quick try but the dbus internals are still rather scary to me, and \
it's one of these low-level issues  that are so fun to debug...


On Wednesday 21 April 2010 11:06:19 Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Colin Walters schrieb:
> <snip>
> 
> > As part of doing this, can someone working on the Windows stuff give
> > me the 1,000 meter overview of where we are on that port with regards
> > to trying to make a real release of the 1.4 tree?
> 
> dbus-daemon and library is usable for the KDE on windows distribution.
> 
> There are still issues with the the test suite. A few has been already
> fixed, the other need to be fixed.
> 
> Known Issues:
> 1. bus-test unix related test config files need to be excluded, made
> cross plattform or need to be duplicated for windows
> 
> Testing valid files:
> ....
> many-rules.conf
> Unknown username "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown group "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown username "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown group "root" on element <deny>
> ...
> system.conf
> Unknown username "root" in message bus configuration file
> 
> 
> 2 there is sometime a communication problem between client and server,
> which are in the same application
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running SHA1 connection test
> Did not receive a message on 002CD6C0, expecting NameOwnerChanged
> File
> "G:\Daten\kde\download\svn-src\dbus-freedesktop-src-ssh\bus\dispatch.c"
> line 701 process 3536 should not have been reached: didn't get the
> expected NameOwnerChanged (deletion)
> messages
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> when running bus-test with
> 
> set DBUS_VERBOSE=1
> bin\bus-test 2> error.log
> 
> the problem does not occur.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running SHA1 connection test
> bin\bus-test: checking for memleaks
> -------------------------------------------------------
> It looks that there is a timing problem between server and client.
> 
> 3. message dispatch problems
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running message dispatch test
> -> a message windows pops up displaying a message that  test-service.exe
> could not be correctly initiated (0xc01500004)
> 
> the verbose log contains:
> 
> 3944: [dbus\dbus-connection.c(4272):dbus_connection_get_dispatch_status]
> UNLOCK
> Did not get the expected org.freedesktop.DBus.TestSuiteEchoService from
> ListNames
> File
> "G:\Daten\kde\download\svn-src\dbus-freedesktop-src-ssh\bus\dispatch.c"
> line 4564 process 3944 should not have been reached: ListActivatableNames
> message failed
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> that's all for now.
> 
> Regards
> Ralf



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