Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2

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

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> 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.


How is it going?

It you're actually using /tmp as your TMP directory and the problem is
not resolved yet, it would help me to debug this problem if you could
post the output of `cygcheck -svr` *as an attachment*, please.


Gerrit
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