KDevelop hangs in Solid/WMI stuff while trying to do an RPC call to some windows service

[Maurice Kalinowski]

Hi,

this is a known issue, where no solution has been figured yet.
Temporarily you can use following hack to get applications launched....
Problem is that ConnectServer() simply doesn't return.


Index: wmiquery.cpp
===================================================================
--- wmiquery.cpp        (revision 983596)
+++ wmiquery.cpp        (working copy)
@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@
     }
     if( !m_failed )
     {
-        hres = pLoc->ConnectServer( _bstr_t(L"ROOT\\CIMV2"), NULL, 
NULL, 0, NUL
L, 0, 0, &pSvc );
-        if( FAILED(hres) )
+        //hres = pLoc->ConnectServer( _bstr_t(L"ROOT\\CIMV2"), NULL, 
NULL, 0, N
ULL, 0, 0, &pSvc );
+        // We just fail here to uninitialize
+        if( true )
         {
             qCritical() << "Could not connect. Error code = " << hres 
<< endl;
             pLoc->Release();
@@ -145,7 +146,10 @@
 WmiQuery::ItemList WmiQuery::sendQuery( const QString &wql )
 {
     ItemList retList;
-
+
+    if( m_failed )
+        return retList;
+
     HRESULT hres;
     hres = pSvc->ExecQuery( bstr_t("WQL"), bstr_t( qPrintable( wql ) ),
                 WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY | WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY, 
NULL, &p
Enumerator);


Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> wondering if anybody else ever encountered hangs in the wmi solid
> backend during startup of applications. I'm running Vista64 with
> MSVC2008 here (all Debug self-built) and its hanging somewhere very
> early on (doesn't even reach the main() function) trying to do some
> rpc-call apparently (there's an RPC thread). I unfortunately don't have
> the exact line or file handy but I can reproduce them if anybody wants
> to debug that.
>
> For now I've re-compiled solid without wmi support.
>
> Andreas
>
>