Re: Deadlock?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin eazel com> writes: 
> More info. Those update_listener calls were made because of old saved state,
> so they were most-likely trying to contact processes that no longer
> exist.

In my experience this just results in COMM_FAILURE or whatever, it
shouldn't hang anything... in fact gconfd expects COMM_FAILURE and
checks for it.

> I'm not sure what to do about this problem. I just ran into it during daily
> development. Nothing seems Nautilus-specific about it, and I don't know how
> to reproduce it. I think it could be a real problem for GConf users.

Joy...

Well, if someone figures out how to reproduce, let me know.

Havoc