Intermittant Gnome action
Scott Robbins
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Mon Apr 7 23:10:38 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:12:15PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >However, I found out yesterday that if I run any gtk app that I can
> >think of (nautilus, firefox, gedit) and I have a network connection it
> >freezes.
>
> Pretty good guess on that one is that when booting into those alternate
> environments you're getting the environment variable http_proxy set, which
> causes the gtk apps to freeze attempting to connect to your proxy. There have
> been a good number of people with that issue on fedora forum in F8, so I'd
> guess the issue remains in F9.
>
I'm impressed if you're right, I had no clue where to even start
looking. :) I"ll look on the forums for the problem and solution then,
thank you.
(I'm not sure if that "I'm impressed," came off sarcastically--I meant
it as a compliment, in the sense that I wouldn't have known to start
looking in that direction.)
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