Gnome2 hangs on startup

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:59:41 +0000, Russell Francis <rfrancis at ev.net>  
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has experienced gnome2 hanging on startup  
> if the sysctl variables
>
> net.inet.tcp.blackhole=1
> net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
>
> are set?
>
> After about a day of putzing around trying to get gnome to start, on a  
> hunch, I set both variables to 0 and gnome started up perfectly.  Can  
> anyone else duplicate or explain this?  If it isn't just me, perhaps a  
> note should be put in the gnome2 port about this?

It's in our FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks,
> Russ


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