Fwd: Re: Remove annoying fatal_error() after wineserver crash - wine-devel

10 Oct 2001


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Am Wednesday 10 October 2001 01:15 schrieben Sie:
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Malte Starostik malte@kde.org writes:
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not sure about the reason for that "the socket exists, but I can't
connect" message, but IMHO it's pretty annoying. I hit this fatal_exit()
very often while debugging reaktivate. And in such cases - or when
starting an app from a desktop / startmenu icon - when wine's STDERR goes
to ~/.xsession-errors instead of a shell, the user has no chance to
figure why an app won't start. Well, long story, short patch which Works
for Me (TM) but I don't know if there's anything wrong with doing this...
The problem with this is that it creates a race condition and we may
end up with two servers running in the same directory, which is bad.
The error message should only happen when a previous server has
crashed, which is a critical error (the server should never crash no
matter what the app does). In that case you should also have a core
file in the same directory as the socket, which you can use to debug
and fix the crash.
Thanks for the hint, I'll try to reproduce it with an appropriate ulimit set.
But right, an actual wineserver crash didn't happen in a while. Unfortunately
I have some system instability currently, so many times the message was
caused by a stale socket lying around after a solid lockup of my box.
What tends to happen rather often though is that wineserver keeps running
after I quit all windows/winelib apps and consumes 100% CPU. In some of such
cases, it'll only die on SIGKILL, which also leaves a socket around.
I agree that neither a system lockup nor a hanging wineserver should happen
though :)
Maybe there could be a wineserver.pid file in the same dir and only if the
process identified therein doesn't exist anymore, the socket will be
autoremoved?
But after all it's not too big a problem, guess there are more important
issues.
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Malte Starostik
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