Bug 236864 – gnome-base/libbonobo-2.22.0: bonobo-activation-server process is not killed when users logout causing tomboy panel applet to fail at next login

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2008-09-06 14:38:17 UTC]

Seems that bonobo-activation-server is not killed when users logout from their
sessions:

 $ ps axu | grep bonobo
rey       7401  0.0  0.3  41616  3128 ?        Ssl  11:26   0:00
/usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=16
pipo      8526  0.0  0.3  41616  3232 ?        Ssl  13:28   0:00
/usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=16
pacho     9414  0.0  0.3  41748  3172 ?        Ssl  14:44   0:00
/usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=16

bonobo-browser shows the following:
OAFIID:Bonobo_CosNaming_NamingContext | Name service |
/usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server | CORBA CosNaming service.

OAFIID:Bonobo_Activation_EventSource | Notification service |
/usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server | Notification service for activation

I already reported this to upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550207

They told me that this is already fixed in trunk as bonobo will quit when dbus quits

I have seen that opensuse and fedora are using some patches for backporting this to 2.22, I will attach both (both seems to work), but I am using fedora's one instead of suse because, after reading patched file in trunk, seems that trunk looks more like fedora's patch than opensuse's one

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-06 14:38:52 UTC]

Created attachment 164728 [details, diff]
libbonobo-2.22.0-quit-with-dbus.patch (opensuse)

Opensuse's patch

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-06 14:39:33 UTC]

Created attachment 164730 [details, diff]
libbonobo-2.22.0-get-on-d-bus.patch (fedora)

Fedora's patch (this is the one I am using since weeks and seems to work fine)

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-06 14:41:30 UTC]

Created attachment 164731 [details]
libbonobo.ebuild.diff

This is the diff for getting the ebuild that I am using now, note that run "eautoreconf" is needed

[Comment 4 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-09-06 19:35:38 UTC]

Thank you for reporting the solution to this issue, assigning to the gnome team.

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-09-08 08:27:33 UTC]

Ok, I've review both patches and here are my thoughts :

 - the OpenSUSE patch saves us an eautoreconf call (which could be interesting) but does all the socket stuff itself (which could be error prone).
 - the Fedora patch, on the other hand, is much smaller and relies and dbus-glib to do most of the grunt work. It looks safer and much closer to the current libbonobo trunk.

As for trunk, it now hard depends on dbus-glib on non-win32 platforms.

If no-one objects, I'll push the Fedora patch later during the day.

Thanks Pacho!

[Comment 6 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2008-09-13 04:46:51 UTC]

Fedora patch certainly looks cleaner.

[Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-09-13 13:37:14 UTC]

I've applied Fedora's patch in version 2.22.0-r1. I've updated the ebuild in the overlay which already has the patch but lacked the proper deps.

Thanks