Re: nice +19

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:14 -0500, Bill Moss wrote:
> Re: CVS-1-22-05:
> At work this morning, NM failed to find the AP on boot. I let the debug 
> message " ... waiting for an access point" repeat about a dozen times 
> then plugged in the wire and immediately got a connection. I unplugged 
> the wire and immediately got a wireless connection. I repeated this a 
> couple of time successfully. nice +19 in the init script is apparently 
> not nice enough to always get the worker thread and the main thread 
> communicating at boot.
> 
> NM is the last service started by the rc system. NM runs through its 
> initial setup and then the window manager comes up which is the last 
> process in inittab. After that NM starts looking for a access point. 
> Without the nice +19 NM looses it way. With nice +19 is sometimes looses 
> its way. When started after boot, NM works fine.

Bill,

Thanks for the report.  I've seen this too (intermittently), and I'll be
taking a look at it later today after I've figured out a crasher with
libglade & GTK 2.6 that people around here are hitting when you choose
"Other wireless network" from the panel applet's menu on Rawhide.

Dan