Gnome2 hangs on startup

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Randy Bush wrote:
|>None have request you to activate fam, rpcbind or inetd.  Only have a
|>valid entry for your host in the resolver or not activate blackhole
|>operation.
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| been there.  done that.  even revisited it when i had brainfade.
| startup is fast.  just that fam seems to be a nice, albeit small,
| cutie.

FAM requires portmap/rpcbind as does NFS.  Many corporations rely on
NFS, so portmapper isn't a wide-open backdoor with which people can gain
access to servers.  If there were any open, known security issues, our
secteam would be working to patch them.

If you firewall off TCP and UDP 111, and only allow local hosts to
connect (maybe _just_ localhost) you should never have a problem with
it.  That said, FAM is optional, and you can certainly rebuild gnomevfs2
without its support if it worries you that much, and/or you want to use
the blackholes.

Joe

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