From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: When moving to a new machine, a user copied his .tcshrc He made sure, that 'tcsh --login' worked with the new setup. However, after he logged out, he could not log in using GNOME. When logging in with KDE, he couldn't run tools like oowriter. This was caused by having set the TMP variable to a nonexisting location (the user simply didn't yet create this tmp directory). While beeing the users fault, it is clearly an obstacle for many users. The hang was caused by gconftool-2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GConf2-2.6.0-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. using bash shell, enter: $ TMP=/undefined_location gconftool-2 --get /blub -command hangs indefinitly- Compare this to: $ gconftool-2 --get /blub No value set for `/blub' $ Actual Results: gconftool-2 was not returning. A strace revealed it wanted to create temporary files. Expected Results: Rapid return with success or failure (depending on wether /blub exists or not). Additional info: My suggestion is, to add a test to gconftool-2 such, that it prints an error message if a temporary file cannot be created or it runs out of disk space while doing so.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Hi, This bug is being closed because it has been in the NEEDINFO state for a long time now. Feel free to reopen the bug report if the problem still happens for you and you can provide any information that was requested.