Windows: Process Starts But No Window Appears

[Tom Purl]

>> 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.

Yes, I've tried the gconftool-2 commands after killing all of the
gconfd-2 processes with the same results.  Also, I've tried killing the
gconfd-2 processes before running GnuCash, but that also didn't help.

>that is what I think too.  And try to remove stale 'ior' files in %TEMP%
>\\gconfd-$user\\lock.

I deleted the ior file, and got the same results.  Also, I tried
changing my %TEMP% dir, and running the --shutdown command.  This
command created the ior file, but didn't delete it once the process had
died.

>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).

Ok

>E.g. what about the gconftool-2 commands above or are there file
>permission problems on that file?  Give us something to work with :)

There don't seem to be any security issues with that file.  I'm able to
read and edit it, and I'm also able to create new files in my %TEMP%
dir.  I can post the ior file if you think that would be helpful.

Thanks again!

Tom Purl