Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Walter Landry wrote:

> "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit@familiehaase.de> wrote:
>
> > Walter Landry wrote:
> >
> > About the gconftool-2 postinstall script hangs:
> >
> >
> > > Is there an easy way to figure out why gconftool is hanging?
> >
> > I guess the problem is starting up gconfd-2.  It fails if there is a
> > stale /tmp/gconfd-USER directory with files in it, look into /tmp if
> > there is a directory gconfd-USERNAME and if so remove it and try to run
> > the postinstall script again.  You may need to shutdown any running
> > gconfd-2 instances to do so.
>
>
> That's not it.  /tmp is empty.  Also, if I try to see if gconfd is
> running with "gconftool-2 --ping", that also hangs.

And during gconftool-2 is running (hanging), gconfd-2 is active or
doesn't it run at all?

Evtl. you're using another directory as TMP?  What says:
set | grep TMP
set | grep TEMP


> > Probably the same reason why gnomevfs-ls hangs for you, the tools are
> > just sitting there and waiting until gconfd-2 is ready.
>
>
> It only hangs for http.  ftp and local stuff seems to work fine.


Interesting.  As I said, the tools always are sitting there and waiting
until gconfd-2 is started up and ready, however I would expect that all
tools are failing then.


Gerrit
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