diff -rup virt-manager-0.8.7/src/virt-manager.py.in foobar/src/virt-manager.py.in
--- virt-manager-0.8.7/src/virt-manager.py.in	2011-03-24 16:39:28.000000000 -0400
+++ foobar/src/virt-manager.py.in	2011-03-31 11:34:02.389991998 -0400
@@ -393,9 +393,16 @@ def main():
     dbus.glib.threads_init()
     import dbus.service
 
-    # Specifically init config/gconf before the fork, so that pam
-    # doesn't think we closed the app, therefor robbing us of
-    # display access
+    # Now we've got basic environment up & running we can fork
+    if not options.nofork and not options.debug:
+        drop_tty()
+        drop_stdio()
+
+        # Ignore SIGHUP, otherwise a serial console closing drops the whole app
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIG_IGN)
+
+    # Initing gconf before forking makes the app lockup on f15/rawhide...
+    # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692570
     import virtManager.config
     config = virtManager.config.vmmConfig(appname, appversion,
                                           gconf_dir, glade_dir,
@@ -408,14 +415,6 @@ def main():
     config.hv_packages = hv_packages
     config.libvirt_packages = libvirt_packages
 
-    # Now we've got basic environment up & running we can fork
-    if not options.nofork and not options.debug:
-        drop_tty()
-        drop_stdio()
-
-        # Ignore SIGHUP, otherwise a serial console closing drops the whole app
-        signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIG_IGN)
-
     from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
 
     gtk.window_set_default_icon_from_file(icon_dir + "/" +