Gajim shuts down/crashes after Dbus restart

[jumijoze]

Gajim on Gentoo Linux behaves strangely since version 0.11.0.7951 and 0.11.1 by crashing completely without any warning. The verbose debug messages don't seem to show any helpful information:

DEBUG: socket       got   <presence type='unavailable' to='jumijoze@jabber.***.de' from='9607***@icq.jabber.***.de'/>
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Got jabber:client/presence stanza
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Dispatching presence stanza with type->unavailable props->[] id->None
10 Mär 2007 00:59:12 Gajim: PresenceCB: unavailable
Playing WAVE '../data/sounds/disconnected.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
DEBUG: socket       got   <presence to='jumijoze@jabber.teamidiot.de' from='2868***@icq.jabber.***.de'/>
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Got jabber:client/presence stanza
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Dispatching presence stanza with type-> props->[] id->None
10 Mär 2007 01:04:29 Gajim: PresenceCB: None
DEBUG: roster       ok    Setting roster item 286***@icq.jabber.***.de for resource ...
DEBUG: socket       got   <presence to='jumijoze@jabber.***.de' from='286***@icq.jabber.***.de'>
  <show>away</show>
  </presence>
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Got jabber:client/presence stanza
DEBUG: dispatcher   ok    Dispatching presence stanza with type-> props->[u'jabber:client'] id->None
10 Mär 2007 01:16:39 Gajim: PresenceCB: None
DEBUG: roster       ok    Setting roster item 2868***@icq.jabber.***.de for resource ...
jumijoze@joze-O-mat ~ $

[misc]

Can you try to obtain a gdb backtrace, or maybe running it under strace to see what is causing the problem exactly ?

Do you see something in the log about dbus, as i have mostly seen this type of silent crash when dbus is restarted ?

[jumijoze]

Strace of gajim crash after stopping d-bus init script

[jumijoze]

You hit the bull's eye misc, it _was_ just D-Bus restarting, which caused the crash :)

After unplugging my AC-adapter plug of my notebook, I recognized that this caused the Gajim crash.

I use a "battery" runlevel for powermanagement and forgot to add HAL daemon and D-Bus to add to this runlevel, so D-Bus was stopping everytime I unplugged the AC-plug and caused to switch to the battery runlevel, which stopped also D-Bus. After adding HALd and D-Bus to the new runlevel, everything works fine.

I uploaded a strace of Gajim crashing, right after D-Bus was deactivated.

[asterix]

dbus is not supposed to be restarted. but I agree that we should not crash as we don't require DBUS to run Gajim.

[asterix]

The problem only appear when network manager option is enable (even if network manager is not present) It's the only code that access to the session bus. I sent a mail to simon mcvittie who already helped us with dbus python binding.

If you set the networkmanager_support option to False you won't have this problem anymore

commenting

bus = system_bus.SystemBus()

(and followings) in src/network_manager_listener.py also fixes the problem.

[asterix]

(In [8307]) don't stop Gajim when dbus is stopped. Fixes #3032

[roidelapluie]

(In [8589]) Don't stop Gajim when dbus is stopped. Fix #3032.