BonoboActivation locking up?

[iain <iain ximian com>]

Whenever my gnome-cd tries to start the CDDBSlave by itself, the slave
gets started, but bonobo_activation_activate_from_id never returns, it
ends up in a poll loop somewhere. If the CDDBSlave is already running,
it goes along fine.

This is the backtrace from gnome-cd
#0  0x409dbbf4 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x4076ece0 in g_main_context_poll (context=0x8089918, timeout=-1, 
    priority=2147483647, fds=0x8133d70, n_fds=2) at gmain.c:2547
#2  0x4076e27e in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8089918, block=1, 
    dispatch=1, self=0x80628b0) at gmain.c:2224
#3  0x4076e430 in g_main_context_iteration (context=0x8089918,
may_block=1)
    at gmain.c:2288
#4  0x406e9565 in linc_main_iteration (block_for_reply=1) at linc.c:125
#5  0x406b7349 in giop_recv_buffer_get (ent=0xbfffee90,
block_for_reply=1)
    at giop-recv-buffer.c:653
#6  0x406bb24b in orbit_small_demarshal (obj=0x81237c0, cnx=0xbfffee8c, 
    mqe=0xbfffee90, ev=0xbfffefc0, ret=0xbfffeefc, m_data=0x406a1c20, 
    args=0xbfffef00) at orbit-small.c:397
#7  0x406bb801 in ORBit_small_invoke_stub (obj=0x81237c0,
m_data=0x406a1c20, 
    ret=0xbfffeefc, args=0xbfffef00, ctx=0x8089d88, ev=0xbfffefc0)
    at orbit-small.c:604
#8  0x4069a114 in Bonobo_ActivationContext_activate_from_id
(_obj=0x81237c0, 
    aid=0x408f15cf "OAFIID:GNOME_Media_CDDBSlave2", flags=0,
_ctx=0x8089d88, 
    ev=0xbfffefc0) at Bonobo_ActivationContext-stubs.c:212
#9  0x4069afd8 in bonobo_activation_activate_from_id (
    aid=0x408f15cf "OAFIID:GNOME_Media_CDDBSlave2", flags=0,
ret_aid=0x0, 
    ev=0xbfffefc0) at bonobo-activation-activate.c:305

The offending code is line 126 of cddb-slave-client.c in
gnome-media/cddb-slave2 (HEAD cvs)
	objref = bonobo_activation_activate_from_id ((char *) id, 0, NULL,
&ev);
where id is OAFIID:GNOME_Media_CDDBSlave2

iain
(Yes, it is a cunning way to get people to check out gnome-media2 :)
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