[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#426412: Bug#426412: python-dbus: system_bus.remove_signal_receiver() freezes

[Simon McVittie]

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On Mon, 28 May 2007 at 16:44:47 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I tracked it down to this call in DevTray:
> 
> system_bus.remove_signal_receiver(item._property_modified,
>                                   'PropertyModified',
>                                   'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device',
>                                   'org.freedesktop.Hal',
>                                    udi)

remove_signal_receiver() takes and releases a lock (which protects the
signal-match tree from concurrent modification when dbus-python is used
multi-threaded). I'll check other places where this lock is used -
there's probably some code path where it's not being released properly.

Regards,
	Simon
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