Re: Gnome CORBA applications hanging on startup

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:47:32 +0000, Peter Wainwright <prw@wainpr.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>        Others have recently reported that Gnome apps hang on startup
>in the last few CVS snapshots. I also encountered this on my
>home machine, which is running stock RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36),
>but not on my work box, which has been upgraded to 2.2.0pre4. So I
>installed the same kernel on my home box, and voila! - all is OK
>again.
>        No doubt you Gnome developers are all running bleeding edge
>kernels so may have not seen this problem. It seems to affect
>CORBA-based applications, so it may be an ORBit problem.

It is, sort of. The fix needs to be made in gnome-libs, though.

You're my hero. I wish everyone gave as useful bug reports as you do. :) Now
I know exactly what the problem is, and a fix will be forthcoming.

-- Elliot
"In film you will find four basic story lines. Man versus man, man
 versus nature, nature versus nature, and dog versus vampire."
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