Bug 134849

Summary:	bonobo-activation-server has achieved immortality
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Lee <clee>
Component:	libbonobo	Assignee:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	dlehman, sitsofe
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	134598

Description Chris Lee 2004-10-06 18:49:05 UTC

Description of problem: bonobo-activation-server fails to exit at the
end of the user's session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libbonobo-2.8.0-2

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to GNOME.
2. Log out.
3. Switch to a command-line with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] and log in as the
same user you logged in to GNOME as, and run 'ps x'
  
Actual results: bonobo-activation-server is still alive and well

Expected results: bonobo-activation-server should be dead and gone

Comment 1 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-15 21:22:03 UTC

I've done some testing with a rawhide nightly install 20041014: if I
login, do nothing and logout, b-a-s goes away correctly (as does e-d-s)

If I click on the panel clock (which should use evolution-data-server
to get your tasks/appointments), then logout, b-a-s and e-d-s also go
away correctly.

However, if I login, start Evolution, and close Evolution, then
logout, THEN b-a-s and e-d-s survive the session.

Do you see this behaviour?  Do you have to run Evolution to get b-a-s
and e-d-s to achieve immortality?

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-15 21:55:48 UTC

I've confirmed this on another machine; the b-a-s problem seems to be
related to e-d-s, when e-d-s is launched from evolution.

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-18 14:37:54 UTC

The e-d-s bug is bug #134851

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-20 07:04:46 UTC

The fix for the e-d-s bug fixes this

Comment 5 David Lehman 2004-11-01 22:38:35 UTC

This appears to also happen with RHEL3. I can reproduce it easily just
by starting evolution then logging out.

Would you prefer I open a new bug since it's for RHEL3?

Comment 6 Dave Malcolm 2004-11-02 14:56:02 UTC

Dave Lehman: yes, please do it for RHEL3 as a separate bug, since so
much of the code is different (and it can then appear in different
trackers, etc)

Comment 7 Dave Malcolm 2004-11-17 19:01:03 UTC

OK, resolving this one as CURRENTRELEASE.

The not-yet-fixed RHEL3 bug (bug #134144) looks similar, but I believe
the exact underlying cause is different.

Comment 8 Sitsofe Wheeler 2004-12-01 11:09:17 UTC

Sorry to ask but which version of libbonobo was this fixed in? I am still seeing
immortal /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server with libbonobo-2.4.0-1 (FC3 final)...

Comment 9 Dave Malcolm 2004-12-02 00:44:03 UTC

From your comments on bug #139834 it sounds like your've discovered another way
to keep evolution-data-server from exiting, and it's that that keepds
bonobo-activation-server alive.  I believe the real problem you're seeing is
with e-d-s, not with b-a-s (although it's arguable that managing object
lifetimes based on distributed reference counting is an inherently broken design).