Re: Re: KDE CI: Frameworks » kio » kf5-qt5 WindowsMSVCQt5.11 - Build # 17 - Still Failing!

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:25 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, 02:50 David Faure, <faure at kde.org> wrote:
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>> Hmm.... So we need to kill it? ....
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> Except regular kill doesn't work. It's immune to that.
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> Process Explorer (Sysinternals) and Task Manager (built in) can kill it though, not sure how though.
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> The solutions I can see in this case are:
> a) Don't do D-Bus on Windows (there are many arguments to say it doesn't belong there at all)
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> b) Disable KSSLD on Windows (we would want to use the system certificate store anyway, so we don't need our own infrastructure)

Any updates on this?

On another note, if Qt knows this part of Windows is broken, why is it
even trying to spin down a thread when they know it's just going to
shoot themselves in the foot?

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> Cheers,
> Ben
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Regards,
Ben

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>> Subject: Re: KDE CI: Frameworks » kio » kf5-qt5 WindowsMSVCQt5.11 - Build # 17
>> - Still Failing!
>> Date: mardi 18 septembre 2018, 16:09:33 CEST
>> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>> To: David Faure <faure at kde.org>
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>> On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:16:50 PDT you wrote:
>> > Hi Thiago,
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>> > this looks like another issue with QtDBus using a separate thread, a
>> > deadlock on shutdown, on Windows. I remember seeing discussions about that
>> > in the past, I thought it was fixed? Maybe not in this particular case...
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>> It's not. Windows has a known design mistake in shutting down threads that
>> they can't fix. And so can't we.
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>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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>> --
>> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
>> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
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