[PyQt] Segfault when the dbus connection is lost

[Phil Thompson]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:07:58 -0400, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com>
wrote:
> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:52:31 -0300, "Alejandro J. Cura"
>><alecu at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> first of all, since I'm new to the list I'd like to thank the people
>>> responsible for PyQt a lot for making such a great project.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to report a bug: when using DBusQtMainLoop, I'm getting
>>> SIGSEGVs when the DBus connection is closed. I've managed to
>>reproduce
>>> this from Ubuntu Lucid (PyQt 4.7.2) up to Ubuntu Precise beta 2 (PyQt
>>> 4.9.1).
>>> 
>>> Attached is a script that when ran shows the issue, but not every
>>time;
>>> on my Precise machine it happens about 3 out of 10 times; on a Lucid
>>VM
>>> it happens every time.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if I should attach any other info, or if there's
>>some
>>> simple way to fix it that I'm missing.
>>> 
>>> BTW: I've seen this bug reported elsewhere[0] for projects using
>>PyQt,
>>> but I'm not sure where I should report it for PyQt.
>>> 
>>> thanks!
>>
>>Should be fixed in tonight's PyQt snapshot.
> 
> I suspect I will be able to figure it out by diffing the two snapshots,
> but I'd appreciate it if you would provide the patch that fixes this so
we
> can apply it to the current release.  Ubuntu is very close to release,
so
> they aren't in a position to wait for the next PyQt release.
> 
> Scott K

Attached.

Why wasn't the bug (which is 5 years old) not reported upstream earlier?

Phil
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