So - this may be related to the www.gnome.org downage currently - perhaps it's
accepting a connection but then not being helpful or somethign - either way -
when something crashes I hit 'Inform developers' and it then (apparently) hangs
-doing some network thing: stack trace:

(gdb) bt
#0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1  0xbfcf3188 in ?? ()
#2  0x4021c964 in ?? () from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#3  0xbfcf3150 in ?? ()
#4  0x40bf9681 in connect () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#5  0x401eb3a9 in gnome_vfs_inet_connection_create_from_address ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#6  0x4385573d in ne_sock_connect ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#7  0x43849517 in ne_get_session ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#8  0x4384a4ba in ne_request_dispatch ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#9  0x4384a08f in ne_begin_request ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#10 0x43847198 in vfs_module_shutdown ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#11 0x43847793 in vfs_module_shutdown ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so
#12 0x401e273f in gnome_vfs_open_uri_cancellable ()
   from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#13 0x401fa4a1 in gnome_vfs_open_uri () from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#14 0x401fa501 in gnome_vfs_open () from /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#15 0x080552e2 in load_bugzillas ()
#16 0x08051427 in main ()

I guess that should be asynchronous or somesuch (prolly best to punt to gnome
bugzilla as/when it's back I guess ;-)