[gnome-user-docs/gnome-3-8] Review dconf page about NFS home directories



commit 410c37641a405331de711a2116dd5d308b5d7d73
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date:   Thu May 9 14:00:44 2013 +0100

    Review dconf page about NFS home directories
    
    Mark untranslatable stuff as untranslatable. Improve title and
    description. Use a more precise instroduction. Add comments explaining
    what is going on and links to relevant bugs. Improve instruction
    wording. Explain what will happen if the isntructions are not followed.

 system-admin-guide/C/dconf-nfs-home.page       |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 system-admin-guide/C/nfs-home-directories.page |   54 -----------------
 system-admin-guide/Makefile.am                 |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/dconf-nfs-home.page b/system-admin-guide/C/dconf-nfs-home.page
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19bd8f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/dconf-nfs-home.page
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its";
+      type="topic" style="task"
+      id="dconf-nfs-home">
+
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="user" />
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-19" status="draft"/>
+    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-05-09" status="review"/>
+
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Jana Svarova</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">jana svarova gmail com</email>
+      <years>2013</years>
+    </credit>
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
+      <years>2013</years>
+    </credit>
+
+    <desc>Update the system configuration for <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> to store user settings in 
a <sys>Network File System</sys> home directory.</desc>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Store <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> settings on <sys>NFS</sys></title>
+
+  <comment>
+    <cite date="2013-03-19" href="mailto:jsvarova gmail com">Jana Svarova</cite>
+    <p>Adapted from GNOME Bugzilla: Bug 694569</p>
+  </comment>
+  <comment>
+    <cite date="2013-05-09" href="mailto:kittykat3756 gmail com">Kat</cite>
+    <p>Also affected by bugs 595579 and 670493.</p>
+    <p>https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595579#c40 and
+    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670493#c8</p>
+  </comment>
+
+  <p>For <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> to work correctly when using
+  <sys>Network File System</sys> (<sys>NFS</sys>) home directories, the
+  <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> <em>keyfile backend</em> must be
+  used.</p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>Edit the <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/profile/user</file> file
+      on every client. If one does not already exist, create it.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>Add a line containing
+      <code><input its:translate="no">service-db:keyfile/user</input></code> to
+      the file and save your changes.</p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  <comment>
+    <cite href="mailto:kittykat3756 gmail com">Kat</cite>
+    <p>In-process changes will take effect imediately, but out-of-process
+    changes will be delayed by the poll time on GFileMonitor.</p>
+  </comment>
+  <p>The <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> <em>keyfile backend</em> will only
+  take effect the next time that the user logs in. It polls the keyfile to
+  determine whether updates have been made, so settings may not be updated
+  imediately.</p>
+
+  <comment>
+    <cite href="mailto:kittykat3756 gmail com">Kat</cite>
+    <p>According to Ryan, "SIGBUS being semi-randomly delivered to your
+    processes is a real downer". This means stuff will crash.</p>
+  </comment>
+  <p>If a <em>keyfile backend</em> is not used, the user settings may not be
+  retrieved or updated correctly.</p>
+
+</page>
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am b/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
index e2bb742..abb9bb8 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
+++ b/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ HELP_FILES = \
        custom-session.page             \
        dconf-custom-defaults.page      \
        dconf-lockdown.page             \
+       dconf-nfs-home.page             \
        dconf-profiles-edit.page        \
        dconf-profiles.page             \
        fonts.page                      \
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@ HELP_FILES = \
        login-background.page           \
        login-banner.page               \
        login-logo.page                 \
-       nfs-home-directories.page       \
        overrides.page                  \
        power-settings.page             \
        printer-configuration.page      \


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