gnomevfs problems

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:42:47PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:27 +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:13:53PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:44 +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Ever since I did a large ports upgrade last week some of my apps have
> > > > started hanging (thunderbird, firefox, eclipse, ...).
> > > > 
> > > > I have narrowed this down to performing any action that will access the
> > > > filesystem, the app will hang but if I wait long enough (hours) then it
> > > > will come right.
> > 
> > Im sure its local to me and I am grasping at straws to finger
> > gnome-vfs. So far I have recompiled glib and all dependants and also
> > ORBit2 and gnome-vfs.
> 
> Yeah, I can't reproduce, and you're the only one thus far to report a
> problem.  What does ktrace report about Firefox while it's hung?

*slaps his forehead*

It seems I still had NIS enabled in my rc.conf while we had
decommissioned it from the network over a month ago. The ktrace showed
that up pretty quickly. I had removed it from nsswitch.conf but gnomevfs
seemed to be still twiddling with it somehow.

All working now, thanks for the help.


Andrew