Do not try indefinitely to connect to the daemon, should not take long to activate. Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/vdagent/vdagent.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Changes since v1: - log error when we reach the limit diff --git a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c index f7c8b72..7a58150 100644 --- a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c +++ b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ typedef struct VDAgent { struct vdagent_file_xfers *xfers; struct udscs_connection *conn; GIOChannel *x11_channel; + guint connection_attempts; GMainLoop *loop; } VDAgent; @@ -370,6 +371,11 @@ static gboolean vdagent_init_async_cb(gpointer user_data) daemon_read_complete, daemon_disconnect_cb, debug); if (agent->conn == NULL) { + // limit connection attempts, this will try for 5 minutes + if (++agent->connection_attempts > 5 * 60) { + syslog(LOG_ERR, "Attempted to contact daemon for 5 minutes, giving up"); + goto err_init; + } g_timeout_add_seconds(1, vdagent_init_async_cb, agent); return G_SOURCE_REMOVE; } -- 2.17.2 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel