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Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2


"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> 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

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@ucsd.edu

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