[sldev] SNOW-222 : request before committing the patch

[Aimee Trescothick]

On 27 Sep 2009, at 08:56, Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I spent the best part of the afternoon tracking that vexing Mac  
> problem and, as expected, that's a silly issue: the export script  
> didn't export the new media UI textures. Those being loaded at  
> launch would hose the texture loading thread entirely. Dropping the  
> missing textures in the skins/default/textures folder solve the  
> problem. I attached a zip file containing the missing textures in  
> the JIRA. Snowglobe Mac devs, thanks in advance for your test and  
> confirmation (or not) of the fix.

I think these textures are already in the updated artwork bundle? A  
quick check suggests they are getting copied into place correctly. In  
which case I'm sorry to report it doesn't fix the problem for me as I  
already had them :(

> This bug however points to another more concerning issue: when files  
> fail to load, the file descriptors don't seem to be released and/or  
> the fetch workers don't close properly. I haven't identified which  
> yet but that's something that could explain quite a bit of spurious  
> "gray texture" issues that have been reported here and there.

While finding yourself in grey world is quite disturbing, it's at  
least reproducible, and hopefully as you say, fixing this could clear  
up these other problems which have proved hard to nail down.

Aimee.