Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report Message-ID: <20020914173520.G91535-100000@mail.allcaps.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209140940100.40126-100000@beppo>
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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
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