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Date:      Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:28:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Tim Welch" <twelch@thepentagon.org>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gedit failed to lock
Message-ID:  <53033.65.7.255.129.1112808521.squirrel@webmail.thepentagon.org>

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Have you done anything with your ~/.recently-used file? I was being clever
once and linked it to /dev/null to keep that list empty. I got the same
warning you're getting. Now cron just clears the list every 5 minutes.
Even if it's not linked to null, I suspect that is the file it's trying to
lock.

Tim

> Maybe not for this list but how do you enable rpc_lockd?
>
>
> I entered rpc_lockd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf on both NFS server and
> NFS client but no change.
>
>
> Gedit is not alone, many apps do the same...
>
>
> \\anders
>
>
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:40 +0200, Anders Troback wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm new to the list so bare with me!
>>>
>>>
>>> When I'm running gedit over XDMCP I got a:
>>>
>>>
>>> WARNING **: Failed to lock: Operation not supported
>>>
>>>
>>> After a few seconds gedit starts and works just fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> If I run it as root or as a user on the console (XDM on the server),
>>> no warning and the program starts instantly.
>>>
>>> I noticed this problem in 2.8 and it still exists in 2.10. Only tried
>>> on 5.3-STABLE and 5.4-PRERELEASE.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not a big problem but the seconds feels like a decade:-)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Chances are you're running off of an NFS volume.  In which case, both
>> the NFS server and client must be running rpc.lockd.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> \\anders
>>>
>>>
>
> --
>
>
> ============================================
> Microsoft is not the answer.
> Microsoft is the question.
> And 'No' is the answer!
> --------------------------------------------
> Anders Trobäck
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