Re: Bug hunt: SIGINT and timeout update (fwd)

["Dave Seidel" <dave superluminal com>]

I'm still getting occaisional SIGINT's.  I've found, though, that I just
have to restart gpilotd manually.  The weird thing is, I always have the
applet running.  It seems to imply that although the daemon doesn't aleays
stay alive when started by the applet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eskil Heyn Olsen" <deity@dbc.dk>
To: "gnome pilot list" <gnome-pilot-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Bug hunt: SIGINT and timeout update (fwd)


> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
>
> > I need to know, how many are experiencing The Timeout Problem, and how
> > many are having The Sigint Problem.
>
> Oh this is sooo creepy...
>
> The two bugs are related to a certain point. If you start the pilot_applet
> from the panel menu, press sync, and the gpilotd received a SIGINT and
> terminates, you will see it as an timeout. I think this accounts for the
> numerous timeout bug reports.
>
> As for the SIGINT, thats just a load of bloody fun ; wednesday evening, at
> work, on my laptop, I suceeded in reproducing the sigint using Manuels
> guide. I peek and poke for at while and is simply baffled at the obscurity
> (apparently, somewhere in the poll/select mechanism, a SIGINT was sent for
> serial ports, the bug could not be triggered with eg. XCopilot).
>
> Anyways, it was turd o'clock and I shutdown the laptop, packed up and went
> home. About 50 mins later, at home, I unpacked, plugged in the pilot (same
> pilot, other cradle), turned on the laptop (same machine), started
> pilot_applet and gpilotd as described (same binaries), pressed sync,
> awaited the SIGINT...
>
> No. Synched as it should.
>
> Only difference (except for the power plug in the wall, elevation above
> sea level and air moisture as someone pointed out), is that the machine
> was rebooted and has another IP address now (dhcp). Binaries, laptop and
> pilot are the same.
>
> Now I don't want to sound like MS tech support, but if you suddenly again
> get sigints all the time, could you try drastic things, like booting (yeah
> I know, sared uptime and stuff) and see if it disappears. I think I speak
> for many, when I say this bug really needs to be nailed.
>
> /dev/eskil
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