Gnucash 2.4.10-1 Windows +MySQL GUI now hangs at various places... almost becoming UNUSABLE!

[Neil Marks]

Ok, well my connection is "mysql://admin@127.0.0.1/gnucash"... no 
localhost...

On 14/03/2012 17:56, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op woensdag 14 maart 2012 17:36:08 schreef Neil Marks:
>> Network related? Duh... I had the problem local to my system when
>> running 2.4.10(&-1) with a local MYSQL DB backend, don't see much
>> network involved here...
> Depending on how you defined your mysql connection you ARE using the Windows
> network stack even if no network packet actually enters or leaves your PC.
>
> I didn't mean to imply any network issue outside your machine, but my choice
> of words might have been confusing.
>
> To my knowledge and experience, the "localhost" domain name on Windows is by
> default tied to whatever ip address your network card has. As a consequence
> some firewalls treat any access to localhost as an external network access.
> Personally, I consider this a weird design choice, but I have run into this
> several times.
>
> So if you connect to mysql via the "localhost" domain name instead of the
> 127.0.0.1 ip address, this can have "network related" impact on your
> experience.
>
>> Reverting back to 2.4.8 meant the problem
>> disappeared... guess I'll be staying on 2.4.8 for some time to come...
> I understood this from your earlier mails. Hence I suggested that the cause is
> more likely in one of the (updated) support libraries GnuCash uses than in
> GnuCash itself, because there are at first sight not relevant changes to the
> GnuCash code that could result in such a behaviour. To an end user this
> doesn't make a difference obviously; the (poor) experience remains the same.
> For developers however, this makes things quite more difficult to track.
>
> I'm afraid I don't have a ready answer to what could be the actual cause. I
> only confirmed that the double gconf.exe instances are not it and hinted at an
> area that could have something to do with it though it's often overlooked on
> Windows.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>