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Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2
"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.
> 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@ucsd.edu
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