[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Application receives SIGKILL if executed through the menu

[From: Celso Pinto]

Hi Kalle,

thanks for your insight. One more question though, in the service file,
the service name should then be com.nokia.<PACKAGENAME>, right?

In related news, how can I suggest changes to the "new application
howto" as to include this precious information? 

Cheers,
Celso

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:58 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> On 1/4/06, Celso Pinto <cpinto at yimports.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > I installed a small application I'm developing on the 770 and noticed
> > that it crashed a lot so the next thing I did was to install it as well
> > in the (x86) SDK and run it there. I noticed that the application also
> > crashed but only when I run it by using the menu entry.
> [snip]
> 
> Usually this is not a crash actually, but intentional interruption by
> the system (which is why you get SIGKILL). This is due to the launched
> program not providing correct service in the dbus (or indeed a service
> at all), which the system takes as if the program failed to load
> properly (hanged) and kills it off so it won't stay and consume
> resources.
> 
> The X-Osso-Service entry in the .desktop file should match exactly the
> PACKAGE argument you are giving to the osso_initialize() function.
> 
> Note that AFAIK the released SDK version of libosso will
> unconditionally prefix the argument "com.nokia", although this can be
> omitted in the .desktop file (at least if the name doesn't contain a
> dot).
> 
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