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Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2


"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> wrote:
> Hello Walter,
> 
> Many thanks for this report this is actually the first feedback I
> receive at all for gnome-vfs;)
> 
> Walter Landry wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I have just installed cygwin yesterday, and I am having problems
> > getting gnome-vfs to work.  It always hangs in the postinstall.
> > Looking at the script it is trying to execute
> > (/etc/postinstall/gnome-vfs2.sh.done), it is trying to run
> > gconftool-2.  If I run that script manually, it also hangs.  However,
> > if I cancel the installation, then gnomevfs-ls will work anyway with
> > local directories.  However, it doesn't work with a remote
> > webdav-enabled web server.  So
> > 
> >   gnomevfs-ls http://superbeast.ucsd.edu/~landry/
> > 
> > just hangs.  That directory works just fine in Mozilla.  ftp seems to
> > work fine with gnomevfs-ls.
> 
> I have the firewall disabled, is it evtl. a problem with your firewall
> settings?  gconftool-2 needs to start gconfd-2 to work and gconfd-2
> needs access to the local network.

I tried disabling the built in Windows firewall, but it still wouldn't
work.  I am behind a hardware router which has its own firewall, but
that has never caused problems in Linux.

> > This is on a Windows XP SP2 machine.  Is this a known problem?  I
> > looked through the archives, but I couldn't find anything pertinent.
> 
> I cannot reproduce your observation , it works for me with NT4 as it
> does with XP/SP2, but see above comment about my firewall settings,
> try to allow gconfd-2 to access the network, though I have currently
> no idea which ports it is using.

Is there an easy way to figure out why gconftool is hanging?

Thanks,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu

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