Re: mozilla hanging on gconfd2 startup?

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:28:22 -0500
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 00:05, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> > > > So it does appear that the hostname is the issue.  However, on a mozilla
> > > > 1.5 and a -current of a few weeks ago, this was not a problem.  So what
> > > > changed?
> > >
> > > The gconf "dependency" was most likely added in 1.6.  The solution to
> > > this is to add your local hostname to /etc/hosts (that's the common
> > > answer to GNOME users encountering this lock in gconfd).  If you don't
> > > want to do that, the pref trick is another valid workaround, but I think
> > > the hostname thing makes more sense.
> > 
> > Attempts to add the hostname as 127.0.0.1 and the actual IP resulted in a
> > hang in the same place.  A tcpdump of both lo0 and fxp0 show no more DNS
> > queries so the hosts entry was definitely being used.  A telnet to the
> > hostname also shows that the lookup succeeds.  Since there were no
> > segments of TCP or UDP, I'm at a loss why it is blocking still.
> 
> I came into the thread late, but is this related to green's recent
> commits breaking binary compatibility of the libc DNS resolver?

That was my first thought, but Nate updated gconf2 and all of its
dependencies.  I'll have to investigate this problem more when I'm at my
-CURRENT GNOME machine.

Joe

> 
> Kris
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