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Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:36:09 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id:	<20041223.223609.74752243.wlandry@ucsd.edu>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2
From:	Walter Landry <wlandry AT ucsd DOT edu>
In-Reply-To:	<41CACB5F.60002@familiehaase.de>
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"Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT 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.

> 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.

Thanks,
Walter Landry
wlandry AT ucsd DOT edu

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