From owner-freebsd-gnome Mon Feb 24 21:38:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986FA37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22FB43FDF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1P5c9ZX097549; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:38:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Gconf and NFS homedirs From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Maxime Romano Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-riZRXMBb5EHk6A3+1wGa" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1046151509.48782.137.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 25 Feb 2003 00:38:29 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.7 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP, PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-riZRXMBb5EHk6A3+1wGa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 00:25, Maxime Romano wrote: > Morning, >=20 > Upon startup of a gnome session, gconf complains that it can't lock the f= ile=20 > ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior . So, making sure that gconf isn't=20 > running, I delete that nasty file, and restart gnome. It seems to really= =20 > want to start, but then it outputs hundreds of messages to /var/log/messa= ges=20 > explaining that it can't lock ~/.gconfd/lock/ior, and the whole session g= oes=20 > haywire. Once that file is deleted, gconf will start without complaining= ,=20 > and the session will continue as normal. >=20 > I've looked around, and according to http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ > (Look under the "I'm having a lock file problem. What do I do?" heading),= =20 > it's caused by my NFS mounted home directory, and that fact that rpc.stat= d=20 > and rpc.lockd aren't running on both machines. >=20 > Now, I first (gasp!) had this problem when I upgraded the client machine = to=20 > 5.0-rel. At that time, the rpc processes weren't started on either=20 > machines. I stuck rpc_statd_enable=3D"YES" and rpc_lockd_enable=3D"YES" = in=20 > rc.conf on both machines and everything went back to normal. Yesterday,=20 > however, I upgraded the server machine from 4.7-rel to 5.0-rel, and that'= s=20 > when the problem reappeared. Of course, ps says that both machines are=20 > running both daemons (however, there's one extra rpc.lockd process runnin= g=20 > as user "daemon" on both machines. Normal?). >=20 > I've tried everything from deleting my ~/.gconf and ~/.gconfd to recompil= ing=20 > gconf, but nothing seems to help. Any pointers? I'm at a loss. I heard there were some NFS locking issues in 5.x that affect GNOME.=20 That's the main reason I haven't upgraded any of my home machines. It works just fine with -STABLE. Of course, I don't run rpc.lockd on -STABLE since it's broken. I only run rpc.statd on my NFS servers. You may want to poke around the current@ archives for more clues. Joe >=20 > -Maxime Romano > "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will n= ot=20 > put." > -- Sir Winston Churchill > http://www.jewcrew.org/~verbophobe/ >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* =20 > http://join.msn.com/?page=3Dfeatures/junkmail >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-riZRXMBb5EHk6A3+1wGa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+WwFVb2iPiv4Uz4cRAso1AJ9LI+f8OJv8r5uodCl02KbDI9KsAQCdGOmu Allaoz06beQaCrlARU+tph4= =hWr7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-riZRXMBb5EHk6A3+1wGa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message