"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Walter, > > Many thanks for this report this is actually the first feedback I > receive at all for gnome-vfs;) > > Walter Landry wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I have just installed cygwin yesterday, and I am having problems > > getting gnome-vfs to work. It always hangs in the postinstall. > > Looking at the script it is trying to execute > > (/etc/postinstall/gnome-vfs2.sh.done), it is trying to run > > gconftool-2. If I run that script manually, it also hangs. However, > > if I cancel the installation, then gnomevfs-ls will work anyway with > > local directories. However, it doesn't work with a remote > > webdav-enabled web server. So > > > > gnomevfs-ls http://superbeast.ucsd.edu/~landry/ > > > > just hangs. That directory works just fine in Mozilla. ftp seems to > > work fine with gnomevfs-ls. > > I have the firewall disabled, is it evtl. a problem with your firewall > settings? gconftool-2 needs to start gconfd-2 to work and gconfd-2 > needs access to the local network.
I tried disabling the built in Windows firewall, but it still wouldn't work. I am behind a hardware router which has its own firewall, but that has never caused problems in Linux. > > This is on a Windows XP SP2 machine. Is this a known problem? I > > looked through the archives, but I couldn't find anything pertinent. > > I cannot reproduce your observation , it works for me with NT4 as it > does with XP/SP2, but see above comment about my firewall settings, > try to allow gconfd-2 to access the network, though I have currently > no idea which ports it is using. Is there an easy way to figure out why gconftool is hanging? Thanks, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
