Re: [Evolution] moving $HOME to nfs

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 02:00, Joe Phillips wrote:
> My $HOME moved from /home/jaiger to /export/home/jaiger (hosted on the
> local nfs server).
>
> I have googled for relevant keywords and turned up some messages in the
> evo archives about not moving $HOME.  I've still attempted to move $HOME
> as I'm out of disk space.
>
> I've hand-edited config.xmldb and filters.xml but I still have
> problems.  
>
> Specifically, when I attempt to read a message stored in a local (as
> opposed to IMAP) folder, I get errors about "Failed to get lock using
> fcntl(2): Permission denied".
>
> Relevant system versions:
> Workstation
> - Debian stable (recently patched)
> - Ximian GNOME, Evo 1.0.8 (via apt-get)
> - Linux 2.4.18 686 SMP (custom debian package)
>
> NFS Server
> - Debian stable (pretty-much standard but recently patched)
> - Linux 2.4.16 x86 SMP (looks like built from source)
>
> NFS server/client software will be whatever versions come with Debian
> stable and/or built into the respective kernels.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1- did I edit the correct files on moving my $HOME?  are there other
> places/files I should look?

Should have done, although config.xmldb stores a bunch of values hex
encoded (to get around bugs in libxml :-/), so you might not have got
everything.

> 2- is that locking error due to (a) moving my home or (b) the home being
> on NFS?

Could be either, although its probably because of nfs.  Although the
code should 'ignore' such errors anyway and just fall back to dot
locking.

Use strace (a recent version that does threads properly) on
evolution-mail to see what files its accessing.

Or just try
killev
mv evolution evolution.back
evolution

and see if it works, if it does, then its probably just some missing
changes.


> thanks in advance.
>
> -joe
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