[Follow-up] GNOME session and gnome-theme-manager delays

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

For those following the thread with Randy Bush's _long_ delays starting
GNOME and certain GNOME applications, the problem was FAM mixed with the
TCP_DROP_SYNFIN kernel option.  Randy had gnomevfs2 built with FAM
support, but was not running FAM.  Because he had this non-standard
kernel option, gnomevfs2 file methods were not simple returning when
they couldn't reach the FAM server.  Instead, they hung...for hours.

Moral of the story: if you build gnomevfs2 with FAM support, make sure
you're running famd.  If you want to add TCP_DROP_SYNFIN to your kernel,
be sure you're aware that it may break certain TCP/IP applications.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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