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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:51:57 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Gconf and NFS homedirs
Message-ID:  <20030225055157.GA1456@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1046151509.48782.137.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <F89ydC3hSsxLtBH49KO0004a887@hotmail.com> <1046151509.48782.137.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:38:29AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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. 

There was a locking bug that would cause a spontaneous panic
typically triggered by gconf. This has been fixed. Other than
that I don't have any problems (clients are all 5.x-current,
server is 4.x-stable).

> 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.

I also have rpcbind running on my 5.x-current clients. I think it
is needed.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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