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Summary: Use of engine's getStateMachineState() crashes
ctaskbrowser and remote deployer
Product: RTT
Version: rtt-trunk
Platform: All
OS/Version: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: P3
Component: Corba
AssignedTo: orocos-dev [..] ...
ReportedBy: kiwi [dot] net [..] ...
CC: orocos-dev [..] ...
Estimated Hours: 0.0

On Mac OS X with trunk. Can get status of state machine of remotely deployed
component with scripting.getStateMachineStatus("XXX"), but
engine.getStateMachineState("XXX") locks up the ctaskbrowser, and causes a
crash of the remote deployer (backtrace attached).

Task browser output
{{{
ctaskbrowser-macosx LeftDeployer
0.017 [ Warning][SingleThread] Forcing priority (0) of thread to 0.
Switched to : LeftDeployer

This console reader allows you to browse and manipulate TaskContexts.
You can type in a command, event, method, expression or change variables.
(type 'help' for instructions)
TAB completion and HISTORY is available ('bash' like)

In Task LeftDeployer[S]. (Status of last Command : none )
(type 'ls' for context info) :cd ArmControllerMgr
13.403 [ ERROR ][TypeInfoName] Can not build Property of unknown_t.
Switched to : ArmControllerMgr

In Task ArmControllerMgr[R]. (Status of last Command : none )
(type 'ls' for context info)
:scripting.getStateMachineStatus("ArmControllerMgr")
Got :scripting.getStateMachineStatus("ArmControllerMgr")
= running

In Task ArmControllerMgr[R]. (Status of last Command : none )
(type 'ls' for context info) :engine.getStateMachineState("ArmControllerMgr")
Got :engine.getStateMachineState("ArmControllerMgr")

^C
}}}