I've partially fixed gnome shares admin, testers needed

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:09 +0400, Sergey Akifyev wrote:
> On ср, 2005-06-22 at 14:26 +0400, Sergey Akifyev wrote:
> > Hello, folks!
> 
> There is another thing to test:
> 
> I've removed waitpid() call in one place from gnomesystemtools code, as
> it causes program to wait for backend if OK or Cancel pressed in dialog.
> The backend only dies by some sort of timeout, so several minutes after
> closing any admin tool both it's frontend and backend hang in process
> table.
> 
> The renewed patch removes that evil waitpid(), because when frontend
> exits, backend will get SIGPIPE and exit anyway. Maybe this is not very
> correct, but definitely better than what we have today.
> 
> To apply changes, replace your
> ${PORTSDIR}/sysutils/gnomesystemtools/files/patch-src_common_gst-tool.c
> with attached version and rebuild gnomesystemtools .

I've just filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315254 to
address the problem with each and every tool hanging on FreeBSD.  At
this point g-s-t is useless on FreeBSD, and I haven't been able to find
a fix.  Have you had any luck with this?

Joe

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