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Bug 501591 - Totem should run when there are zombies around
Totem should run when there are zombies around
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162822
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-04 19:40 UTC by Martin Ejdestig
Modified: 2007-12-06 18:04 UTC
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Description Martin Ejdestig 2007-12-04 19:40:21 UTC 
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For some reason Totem's window just closed on me when I was in the middle of playing a file. After that, I couldn't start it again. Double clicking on video/audio files gave no feedback what so ever. Nor did running in a terminal.

Listing all processes on the system showed that the first process was defunct. I'm guessing Totem's single instance machinery prevented it from running since there already was a process (albeit defunct) around? Hence, the only way to start Totem again was to reboot the computer.

(If the single instance code ain't to blame, I'm afraid I've no clue on how to proceed...)
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-12-06 18:04:52 UTC 
It is that code to blame, but I'm not sure how you would handle this case. Hopefully, switching to D-Bus in the future will take care of that, as the receiving end will time out, and allow us to start up.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162822 ***