About two weeks ago I installed stable, with unstable OpenOffice, on a user system with security updates. The user, alples, has an NFS /home directery mounted from a Sun I don't have root access to.
In the began the nfs /home directory mounted: soft,bg,rw but when she logged in Gnome would freeze up and the log would get: Nov 14 14:41:56 trade gconfd (alples-637): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/ac/res/cs9/alples/.gconfd/lock/ior': probably another process has th e lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured, or a hard NFS client crash caused a stale lock (No locks available) Nov 14 14:41:56 trade gconfd (alples-639): starting (version 1.0.9), pid 639 user 'alples' Nov 14 14:41:56 trade kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 138.15.x.y Nov 14 14:41:56 trade kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 138.15.x.y as she never logs into other systems I added the nolock option and all want well from a week. The /proc/mounts has the following options on /home partitions: rw,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,udp,nolock,addr=xy.nj.nec.com Today gnome freezes up again with the following running: $ ps -fu alples UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD alples 506 456 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 alples 532 506 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 alples 536 1 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-TZAlon/ --sm-client-id 118a0fa88e000103737388900000004700000 alples 548 1 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 sawfish --sm-client-id 118a0fa88e000103737389300000004700003 --sm-prefix a7vro0b87l no system errors this time. I got it to work again by deleting .gnome* files and friends but I don't think that is a long term solution. She used to use Mandrake 8.x on her desktop with /home from nfs and I never had this problem. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
