Re: [Evolution-hackers] Composer failure ...

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

Are you installing/removing gconf packages or anything like that?  
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30570 is a similar sounding
bug with gconf if you want to add your input there.

--Larry

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 10:11, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 10:48, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	I'm still having repeated problems with Gconf / evolution
> ...
> >	to no avail. Does anyone have any idea (short of strace 
> > 'world', wait for hours) that I could work out who / how that file
> > gets unlinked ?
> 
> 	Well - in the end I did just that; and 200Mb of strace log later I got
> it to misbehave; I caught everything (including gconfd-2) that was
> execve'd for evolution correctly.
> 
> 	Imagine my suprise then to discover that no-one unlinked anything in
> /tmp/orbit, and yet - the socket node is indeed gone, and the problem
> shows it's ugly head. [ and gconfd-2 still has it bound / open etc. of
> course ].
> 
> 	So - can anyone suggest how that file can disappear without it being
> unlinked by anything forked from evolution ? perhaps I'm missing a
> 'delete' syscall or something ;-)
> 
> 	Really perplexed here, short of stracing every process somehow I don't
> know how to catch the culprit. Is there any cunning kernel debugging
> that would do something useful here ? of course - not having any way to
> predict when it will happen is not helpful either.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks@gnu.org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
> 
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