Windows: Process Starts But No Window Appears

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Tom,

Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2007, 14:39 -0400 schrieb David Hampton:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:09 -0500, Tom Purl wrote:
> 
> > > gconftool-2 --shutdown
> > 
> > This command executes without any problems, but it doesn't kill the
> > existing gconfd-2.exe process.
> 
> There's something wrong then.
> 
> > Do you know what I should do next?
> 
> Have you tried force killing all the gconfd processes?  I occasionally
> get what appear to be system hangs on my linux system (gconftool-2
> commands fail, can't open new gnome-terminal windows, etc, etc) that all
> stem from a hung gconfd process.  When I kill that process, everything
> else starts working again.

that is what I think too.  And try to remove stale 'ior' files in %TEMP%
\\gconfd-$user\\lock.  Even better, assuming there is still such a file
after killing gconfd-2.exe, do some tests with it (I was not able to
reproduce problems with it on Linux).  E.g. what about the gconftool-2
commands above or are there file permission problems on that file?  Give
us something to work with :)

Good work so far!

> David

-- andi5