using gnome is an NFS environment seems to be painfully. Just have a look at #6138 and #6140 : http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6138 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6140
when I have the combinaison on both, see what happen. When you log in and have the gnome preference daemon bug ( see #6138 ), then you decide to stop everything before it mess up your session config ( as it asks to remove some applets ... ) by hitting CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. You reboot the computer to resolve the problem ( argh, having to reboot for a gnome problem ! ) and when you try to log in again ... gconf locking problem ( so you need to remove manually the lock ) and then you can log in ( so 3 attempts and 1 reboot just to log in in Gnome ! ). This is really painful when you have several computers to administer under gnome. the locking problem can be solve by erasing by hand the lock at each gnome start ( i put this in /etc/gnome/gnomerc ), but this is just a hack. Gnome is really too fragile in an NFS environment ... --- Quand le doigt montre la lune, le fou regarde le doigt. Proverbe Chinois.
