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FS#3839 - firefox STILL freezes when gnome-vfs is installed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andre P (acetylcholine) - Thursday, 26 January 2006, 01:46 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 26 January 2006, 12:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Originally found here:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2836

Firefox STILL freezes when gnome-vfs is installed. I totally missed it because I didn't have gnome installed and thought I did.

Didn't have other way of contacting JCG...

Also, the bug is present in xfce as well...
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 05 February 2006, 15:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Andre P (acetylcholine) - Sunday, 29 January 2006, 23:56 GMT
I think this will end it. So I tried to start using KDE. And my system halted at "initializing system services." As it turns out, it is the "famous domain name bug" which asks for a properly configured /etc/hosts (and rc.conf i guess) and, more importantly, communication with the loopback device.

So, im *guessing*, gnome-vfs does something when gtk widgets are called and we know how gnome stalls when it cant talk to the loopback.

So my hosts were all cool, arch's default stuff and so on. But I used simple_firewall.rules from /etc/iptables/ as my firewall script (/etc/iptables/iptables.rules) for the iptables daemon but they shut off everything. So I added
# loopback for kde/gnome apps
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
above my established related line

There is no more stalling (the bug is fixed, was it even a bug?). and KDE works, and KDE apps turn on in less than 10 minutes :) yay. i can live the dream again.
Comment by Andre P (acetylcholine) - Sunday, 29 January 2006, 23:57 GMT
oh, of course, the "famous bug" applies to gnome/kde
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 05 February 2006, 15:56 GMT
gnome-vfs calls FAM, but to find out if fam is reachable, it tries to contact portmap... which will take ages when your localhost interface is firewalled.

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