gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Fri Dec 24 11:22:00 GMT 2004
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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