From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 14 17:41:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E07137B4BC for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (h-66-166-142-198.SNDACAGL.covad.net [66.166.142.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8045444201 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@mail.allcaps.org) Received: by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id A5A1F154FD; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F23B154FC; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020914173520.G91535-100000@mail.allcaps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote: > But we need a window manager- let's build gnome2! That worked- but, > haha, gnome2 refused to run because it failed to be able to do NFS > locking on my NFS mounted (on a Solaris 8 server) home directory. Oh, > well that's really not going to cut it now, is it.... Oh, well, let's > live with plain sawfish until we sort this one out... Please report this to the Gnome folks. Given the state of NFS filelocking on *any* open source system (they are all broken in various ways-this includes Linux and *BSD), requiring fully working NFS file locking on a widespread windowing system is not a good idea. In addition, I would bet that they'll probably point you to some command-line flag which disables that file locking. -a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message