On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:10:38PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:12:15PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > > > Scott Robbins wrote: > > > >However, I found out yesterday that if I run any gtk app that I can > > >think of (nautilus, firefox, gedit) and I have a network connection it > > >freezes. > > > > Pretty good guess on that one is that when booting into those alternate > > environments you're getting the environment variable http_proxy set, which > > causes the gtk apps to freeze attempting to connect to your proxy. There have > > been a good number of people with that issue on fedora forum in F8, so I'd > > guess the issue remains in F9. > > This doesn't seem to be the case. I took a look on forums and saw your posts. I ran set and also tried echo $http_proxy (both upper and lower case, as well as ftp_proxy) but it just came back blank. I then ran openbox and started firefox from an xterm in it, doing a tail -F /var/log/messages. I got the following Apr 7 19:25:09 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 2478 user 'scottro' Apr 7 19:25:09 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Apr 7 19:25:09 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/scottro/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Apr 7 19:25:09 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 The next lines are after I did a ctl+C to get out of it. _________________ Apr 7 19:25:39 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Apr 7 19:25:39 acerfedora gconfd (scottro-2478): Exiting So, I guess something with gconfd? <goes into rant about gnome---ok, I'm better now.> :) I'm not quite sure where to troubleshoot this, I'll try googling those error messages later tonight. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: What's her saga? Xander: She's freaking. Cordelia: About what? Xander: The mayor is gonna kill us all during graduation. Cordelia: Oh. Are you gonna go to 5th period? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list