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Re: gtkhtml + gconf failing on Solaris-Athena 9.2 -- process hangs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Jun 17 12:10:59 2003
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Jun 2003 12:10:57 -0400
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Thanks. Setting the ATHENA_LOGIN_SESSION seemed to fix my initial
issue, but I agree that hanging without that env var seems to be poor.
Thanks for looking into it.
-derek
Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> writes:
> The gconf library should not simply hang the program when there is a
> problem launching the daemon. I believe the problem is that the parent
> process needs to close the write side of the pipe used by the daemon
> to signal that it has started. I will work on a fix for this soon.
>
> I also noticed that, while certain programs launch version 1 of the
> daemon, we have not back-ported the recent GConf2 changes. I will
> also work on that...
>
> Bob
>
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