Re: Unidentified subject! (Two Balsas crash)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Peter Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 16:40:32 Mike Palczewski wrote:
> > ok I managed to get balsa to crash by opening up balsa twice and checking 
> > email. here is the debug output.
> > 
> > 
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> > 
> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 332 (gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed.
> > Message: 135445560, 1, POP3
> > Message: 135414192, 1, POP3: w-link
> > Message: 135411432, 1, POP3: uw
> > Message: 135432616, 1, IMAP
> > Message: 135441488, 1, Local Mail
> > Locking mailbox 
> > *** ERROR: Mailbox Stream Closed: mailbox_check_new_messages ***
> > Unlocking mailbox 
> > Message: 135432616, 6, Finished
> > Message: 135441488, 1, POP3
> > Message: 135431528, 1, POP3: w-link
> > 
> > ** WARNING **: -ERR /var/mail/.mpalczew.pop lock busy!  Is another session active? (35)
> > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x324b)!
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but "Is another session active?" seems pretty
> clear. Maybe, like has been discussed on gnome-devel-list today,
> running Balsa twice should bring the first instance to the foreground.
> As I recall libmutt is no good when grabbing a lock fails -- aborts or
> something like that. (Maybe, I haven't looked at it in a while).

No, no, no.  Please no!

Running an application twice should run it twice.  This is a real
operating system, not a toy one.

If there are technical problems with running twice, the second copy should
give an error message (possibly drop back to read-only mode, as netscape
does).

Jules

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