I'm using an /home NFS share with NFSv3 + tcp + soft + timeo=600 and r/wsize=8192 with nfs lock activated + NIS auth With KDE everything is fine. Now the problem comes with Gnome. In 9.1, sometimes gnome fails to start correctly on 5 of the 5 mahcines with gnome ( some 100% of gnome machines where affected at one time at least ). I made a script that could clean the things right ( locking pb ) launched from /etc/gnome/gnomerc :
rm -f ~/.gconfd/lock/ior rm -f ~/.gconfd/lock/.nfs* rm -f ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior rm -f ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/.nfs* When I installed RC2 ( installation not upgrade so gnomerc is reset ) the pb disappear. cool. Now I'm facing a new problem. When I launched gnome, a message said that gnome-settings-daemon failed to start. there's nothing in ~/.xsession-errors. So gnome can start fine but want me to delete all applets as it failed to launch/initialize them, don't use the right theme ( galaxy ). Nautilus can be launched, i can access to preferences:/// but changing is not working. I notice that gconfd move lock files from ~/.gconfd/ & ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ to ~/tmp/gconfd-username/lock/ ~/tmp is on the NFS share ( i.e this is not a symlink to /tmp/username ) so I don't know if this is the problem even if the message is different. Before I had a message concerning a locking problem ( so I could track the pb and correct it ), but now it's more vague. I don't know if this is related but when I'm using evolution ( I'm under KDE as gnome is unusable for me at this moment ) it freeze when it fetch emails from POP server. The problem is that this is automatic. So when I wrote my message, if it try to check new mails, it freeze and I have to use killev. I believed it was something bad on my system, but after 2 days I must say that this is very annoying. I have to disable automatic mail checking in order to be able to use evolution to write emails. My version : evolution-1.4.4-8mdk nfs-utils-1.0.5-1mdk kernel-2.4.22-9mdk ( -10mdk is installed but I don't boot with it yet ) gnome-vfs2-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-session-2.4.0-3mdk libgnome32-1.4.2-7mdk gnome2-2.4.0-3mdk gnome-desktop-2.4.0-1mdk ORBit-0.5.17-6mdk libORBit2_0-2.8.1-1mdk pyorbit-2.0.0-1mdk ORBit2-2.8.1-1mdk libORBit0-0.5.17-6mdk gconf-editor-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-python-gconf-2.0.0-2mdk gconfpref-0.0.1-1mdk libgstgconf0.6-0.6.3-3mdk gnome-system-monitor-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-db2.0-0.91.0-1mdk libgnomecanvas2_0-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-themes-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-themes-extras-0.3-3mdk libgnome-vfs0-1.0.5-10mdk galaxy-gnome-0.9.4-14mdk gnome-iconedit-1.2.0-12mdk libgnomeprint15-0.37-4mdk gnome-find-1.0.2-5mdk gnome-cups-manager-0.17-1mdk libgnomeprint-2.3.1-4mdk gnome-vfs-extras-0.99.10-3mdk libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1-0.22.0-2mdk gnome-vlc-0.6.2-5mdk gnome-control-center-2.4.0-1mdk gnome-vfs-1.0.5-10mdk gnome-python-bonobo-2.0.0-2mdk libgnome-db0-0.2.96-9mdk libgnome-vfs2_0-2.4.0-1mdk libgnomeprintui2-2_0-2.3.1-2mdk gnome-alsamixer-0.9.5-1mdk gnome-libs-1.4.2-7mdk gnome-audio-2.0.0-1mdk gnome-utils-2.4.0-1mdk libgnomeui2_0-2.4.0.1-1mdk gnome-print-0.37-4mdk libgnomemm-1.2_9-1.2.4-2mdk libglade-gnome0-0.17-9mdk gnome-python-canvas-2.0.0-2mdk libgnome2_0-2.4.0-3mdk gnome-panel-2.4.0-2mdk libgnomecupsui-1.0_1-0.17-1mdk libgnomecups-0.1.6-1mdk gnome-icon-theme-1.0.8-1mdk libgnomeui2-2.4.0.1-1mdk libgnome-db2.0_3-0.91.0-1mdk gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-2mdk gnome-tiles-1-7mdk libgnome-desktop-2_2-2.4.0-1mdk libgnome2-2.4.0-3mdk gnome-common-1.2.4-6mdk gnome-mime-data-2.4.0-2mdk gnome-audio-extra-2.0.0-1mdk gnome-user-docs-2.4.0-1mdk libgnomeprint2-2_0-2.3.1-4mdk gnome-network-1.99.1-1mdk gnome-applets-2.4.0-1mdk libgnome-db2.0_2-0.12.0-1mdk gnome-spell-1.0.5-2mdk gnome-media-2.4.0-1mdk gstreamer-gnomevfs-0.6.3-3mdk gnome-pim-1.4.9-3mdk gnome-python-2.0.0-2mdk libgnomecups-1.0_1-0.1.6-1mdk libgnome-window-settings1-2.4.0-1mdk -- Le pressentiment, c'est le souvenir du futur. Pierre Dac
