[et-mgmt-tools] About a solution to operate the virt-manager

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:58:45AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:13:52AM +0900, Yoshihiko Yaegashi wrote:
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This is a GNOME / GTK bug I believe - try disabling 'Accessibility'
> > > support in GNOME, and the logging out from X and strting a new
> > > GNOME desktop session.
> > 
> > Thank you for your advice.
> > I have been possible to operate the virt-manager by the above method.
> > 
> > I have a question.
> > Is it possible to execute the Dogtail tests as 'Accessibility'
> > support made disable?
> 
> No, it is not possible - Dogtail uses the accessibility extensions to
> control the application.  Probably best to file a bug about the hang so
> we can make sure it gets tracked & resolved in Fedora 7. In the meantime
> things ought to be working correctly on FC6 with accessibility enabled.

I've just confirmed the hang and identified the flaw in PyGTK bindings
that causes it. The BZ is 

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231394

If this doesn't get addressed promptly I'll see if I can write a small
C module to workaround the flaw by forcably calling gdk_threads_init()

Regards,
Dan.
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