Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/12/28/15:03:28
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
>
>> "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.
>
>
> 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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