Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

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Author: intrigeri
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel
Hi,

Ague Mill wrote (28 Sep 2012 15:27:18 GMT) :
> So my hack have been to add a call to `dbus_thread_init_default()`
> in the initialization of the Python `dbus` module. And it looks like
> it solve the issue. I have not been able to get the installer to
> crash after installing the modified `python-dbus` package.


Congrats for the debugging and for finding this hack!

> From what I can read from the documentation, except a performance
> hit, there should be no other downsides to it.


> The binary `python-dbus` package is fairly small (226 kB) and at
> this time, it's a patch I feel we can carry on.


> What's your opinion? Should I proceed in adding a custom
> `python-dbus` to the multikernel branch?


Please proceed: at least so that we can verify that this hack
workarounds the bug in various settings.

I'm fine with shipping a patched python-dbus in Tails (obviously, as
long as we report the bug and forward the patch at least to Debian).

Cheers,
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