Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:59:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20050104.215930.130239810.wlandry@ucsd.edu> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2 From: Walter Landry In-Reply-To: <41CBF9F8.8040909@familiehaase.de> References: <41CACB5F DOT 60002 AT familiehaase DOT de> <20041223 DOT 223609 DOT 74752243 DOT wlandry AT ucsd DOT edu> <41CBF9F8 DOT 8040909 AT familiehaase DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > Walter Landry wrote: > > > "Gerrit P. Haase" 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 Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation. In any case, this was crucial. The temp directory turned out to be somewhere else. There was a gconfd directory that I removed, and it works for webdav directories. This would also explain why reinstalling cygwin didn't work. I would delete all of C:cygwin to start over, but it wouldn't delete that temp directory (something like C:Documents and Folders/(username)/something/something/Temp). Thanks, Walter Landry wlandry AT ucsd DOT edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/