Re: [Fwd: GUADEC cancelled due to beer shortage]

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hey,

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:15, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-06-23 at 10:52, Ghee Teo wrote:
> >     I have heard a lot about when people can not log in more than once 
> > sharing the same
> > home directory, but I have seen little evidence that gconf is to be 
> > blamed for all these.
> 
> gconf is only one part of it, the failure of gconf to reliably
> quit combined with NFS home directories makes the mess even bigger
> because it bites people logging in after they logged out somewhere
> else and ran evolution, to the point people are running add on pam
> modules to clean up the mess.
> 
> With KDE I can be logged in from two places at once and it just works.
> With Gnome I can't. I get told off about gconf locks and if I ignore
> that life gets *very* strange.
> 
> Easy to demonstrate with 2.6 - login on console, login at the same time
> via gdm remotely. "Enjoy"

	Believe it or not, that's yet another set problem of problems - i.e.
where you login twice as the same user on the same host.

	An example of the kind of problems you see with this is that
gnome-settings-daemon is only activated once per-host, not per-display
so you don't get the correct themes etc. on the second display:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94049

	Since GConf 2.4 we've kept the GConf locks in /tmp so you shouldn't be
getting told about GConf locks when sharing a homedir over NFS and
logging in on different machines.

	Oh, and as regards GConf not quiting after you logged out - that should
be fixed in 2.6. gnome-session asks GConf to shutdown on logout now.

Cheers,
Mark.