[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#411785: python-dbus: Causes segfaults

[Erich Schubert]

Package: python-dbus
Version: 0.80.2-1
Severity: normal

Python-dbus can be caused to segfault:
---
import dbus
sb = dbus.SystemBus()
sb.get_is_connected()
[1]    492 segmentation fault  python
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I was trying to find a way to force a reconnect, to avoid the error in
#411778 (I'll clone that bug to python-dbus):
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Introspect error: Connection was disconnected before a reply was
received
Introspection failed for org.freedesktop.Tracker (:1.956),
/org/freedesktop/DBus/Local
process 3545: arguments to dbus_pending_call_set_notify() were
incorrect, assertion "pending != NULL" failed in file
dbus-pending-call.c line 598.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
[1]    3545 segmentation fault  ./dbus-inspector
---

It seems that the abrupt disconnection by tracker brings dbus-python
into an inconsistent state.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages python-dbus depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.72-4       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.9-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  python                      2.4.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support              0.5.6        automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages python-dbus recommends:
ii  python-gobject                2.12.3-1   Python bindings for the GObject li

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