gvfs claming that http is not supported - except under sudo.

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Samstag, den 22.03.2008, 12:10 +0000 schrieb Neil Williams:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:46:50 +0100
> Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> wrote:
> 
> > Am Samstag, den 22.03.2008, 11:21 +0000 schrieb Neil Williams:
> > 
> > > Hmmm, I haven't logged out of this session for quite a few days and I
> > > only installed gvfs yesterday.
> > > 
> > > I hesitate to mention it but:
> > > 1. I originally discovered this problem on my powerpc laptop (same
> > > conditions - recent install of gvfs in a session that had been running
> > > for days)
> > > 2. things changed with 'sudo invoke-rc.d dbus restart'
> > > 
> > > Is GVfs going to be yet another package that needs to restart dbus in
> > > postinst?
> > > 
> > > I will test on my powerpc laptop (which is still running the same
> > > session) and let you know.
> > 
> > Thanks... I don't think gvfs needs to be restarted when dbus is
> > restarted. 
> 
> That's not quite what I meant.
> 
> From these two boxes here, what I think gvfs does need to restart dbus
> (i.e. the other way around) *and* ensure that it does not create any
> zombie processes until dbus has restarted.
> 
> Certainly, if gvfs is allowed to get into a situation where it has
> successfully installed for the first time *without dbus being
> restarted* before gvfs is first used, then problems are IMHO inevitable.
> 
> Once dbus has been restarted by the gvfs postinst, gvfs can continue
> without being affected by other dbus restarts, at least AFAICT.

That's not correct this way. gvfs must not restart the dbus system bus,
it only uses it and it must be running already before gvfs is started.

In theory gvfs should work just fine for you if you have a session
bus :)

Can you reproduce the problem somehow btw?
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