Re: Strange response to QCop sendHandshakeInfo

Paul Sokolovsky <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:53:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Paul,

Sunday, January 7, 2007, 1:08:42 AM, you wrote:

> Hi there,

> I'm trying to debug a problem with the Opie plugin for OpenSync that one of my
> users is having. The plugin can't seem to obtain the root path where the XML
> files can be found using QCop. The plugin is sending this:

> CALL QPE/System sendHandshakeInfo()\n

> And Opie is apparently returning this:

> CALLB QPE/Desktop handshakeInfo(QString,bool) 
> AAAAFAAvAGgAbwBtAGUALwByAG8AbwB0AAAAAA==

  Well, this clearly looks like base64-encoded value, and base64
encoding usually applied to transfer non-ascii strings. Sorry if this
hint is too naive.

> Now, from looking at the code, the only way this could be happening is if the
> environment variable $HOME contained that garbage. Perhaps the environment
> has been corrupted somehow? The other thing missing is the screen locking
> status value.

> Does anyone have any ideas as to what could cause Opie to return this 
> response?

> Thanks,
> Paul


-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:[email protected]

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