[ProgSoc] nfs and locks

[vik <vik@nospam.progsoc.org>]

hey...

I have a situation where certain gnome apps cannot run because gconfd 
cannot create locks; this arises b/c /home is a nfs mount. lockd appears 
to be running on the client machine, and the server is running the 
userspace nfs server on debian/woody (the client is also woody)

any ideas? how do nfs locks work? are they co-operative? r they just 
ordinary files with the PID of the proc in them?

The log msg I get from gconfd is:
Nov  8 12:24:19 packer gconfd (vik-15599): Failed to get lock for 
daemon, exiting: Failed to create or open '/home/vik/.gconfd/lock/ior'

cheers

vik


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