Re: GNOME Showstopper Review

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 17:08 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
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> > GNOME-SESSION
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> > Exits when the system D-Bus daemon restarts
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583345
> > Patch available.
> 
> How is this a blocker ? I know that debian thinks it is a good idea to
> restart the bus, but everybody else pretty much agrees it is crazy to
> support that...

I haven't seen this one affecting me yet, but from previous experiences,
dbus would crash in the middle of a package upgrade sometimes. When your
whole gnome session including all running applications and the
gnome-terminal that drives your package upgrade process gets killed
because of a crashing dbus daemon, you're not amused. I'm ok with a
crippled desktop because dbus crashed, but I'm not ok with loss of work.