Killing activities

[Ivan Krstić]

On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Steve Lewis wrote:
> I am finding myself in a situation where I start an activity that  
> fails
> to start - this happens alot becaise I am writing my own
> activities - short of restarting sugar is there any way to kill a  
> stuck
> activity - one which says it is starting and never gets the Stop/ 
> Resume
> menu?

In the development versions, activities that fail to start after some  
amount of time should be reaped automatically by Sugar:

<http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=commitdiff;h=b876648bd616fa57b0e3c8050af46bb1c6268e75 
 >

Unless your actual processes are getting stuck (in which case you can  
sigkill them), there's nothing particularly bad about the pulsating  
icon being stuck; it's just a visual annoyance. You could crank the  
"activity failed" reaping timeout down significantly in your Sugar  
checkout while doing development.

Please note Reply-To. Cheers,

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