Sorry, seems GConf doesn't work with NFS unless you have nfslocking working ....
Back to a normal cut and paste ;-) Buchan Buchan Milne wrote: > It is not possible for me to use Gnome under Mandrake 8.2beta, since it > does not play nicely with NFS-mounted homes. It seems GConf is now > broken, and this means: > -you can't use the Gnome Control Panel > -you can't start Nautilus > -Evolution doesn't work correctly > > Thus I had to resort to using KDE ... > > On the same machine, a clean NFS-homed test account also exhibits the > same behaviour, whereas a clean non-NFS-homed test account works fine. > > Trying to start Nautilus give me this error message repeating in the > console: > > Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: > Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that > you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't > reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you > may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) > > (I am only logged into one machine) > > The same setup (using NFS-mounted home) works fine with Gnome in > Mandrake 8.1. > > <rant>I guess the Gnome-hackers don't want to see it being used in a > networked envrironment ;-). And now I am stuck with KDE's buggy > cut-and-paste (the inablility to distinguish between copy (CTRL-C) and > X-cut-buffer (highlight), meaning I can't copy and paste my proxy > settings, since when I hightlight the text to replace, it copies that to > the clipboard! Maybe I should just use the klipper, but I only want to > copy and paste _1_ thing, so it shouldn't be necessary.</rant> > > At least I still have mozilla ... > -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/gpg.key
