Re: beagle FC6 hang (was Re: beagle 0.2.10 hangs after a few minutes)

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Debajyoti Bera wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Ignore if you are not using beagle on FC6.
>
>   
> > Beagle used to work fine for me on FC5, but after updating to FC6
> >     
> ...
>   
> > beagled hangs after some time ~5-10 minutes so that I can't search the
> > indexes and beagle-status simply hangs to.
> > It seems that I am not the only one who have this problem:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212370
> >     
> For anyone using beagle on FC6 and seeing the above hang,
> I checked the FC6 patches for beagle and found an xlib patch which might be 
> causing the problem. 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212370#c20 explains the 
> situation in little more detail.
> In short the hang doesnt happen in the actual 0.2.10 release but by an FC6 
> patch which tries to smartly detect X disconnection. (beagle monitors 
> Xscreensaver to tune up the speed of indexing).
> If you are experiencing the hang, please unset the environment variable 
> DISPLAY for the time being.
>
>   
unset DISPLAY seems to work thx, but we still need a better fix
> - dBera
>
> PS: I dont understand xlib that good but the patch seemed to have a good 
> intent. If they find a better solution than regular polling then it makes 
> sense to patch it upstream.
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