assertion failure in D-bus code

[Ethan Blanton]

Oleg Sukhodolsky spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On 5/8/07, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> > Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > > > That assertion is probably unrelated to the core dump.
> > >
> > > It's directly related. He's running with --enable-fatal-asserts, so that
> > > assertion failure will cause an abort().
> >
> > Yeah, I saw that in your reply email ... it never occurred to me that
> > someone would go out of their way to compile with --enable-bustination
> > and then ask why things were bustinated.  Live and learn.
> 
> I'm not asking why pidgin exits after assertion, I'm asking why the
> assertion fails.

The assertion fails *hard* because you compiled with
--enable-fatal-asserts. Had you not done that, it would have simply
printed a harmless message and continued.  The assertion failure
itself is because an argument to some signal is of an object which is
not registered with the D-Bus interface.

Ethan

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