Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Help on Using version 1.2

[fejj peabody ximian com]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:55, fejj peabody ximian com wrote:
> > This question really belongs on the user list and not the hackers list
> > (which is for people developing evolution only).
> >
> > You are correct in that gconf will not work on NFS mounted home
> > directories because gconf cannot obtain a lockfile for it's database of
> > configuration files.
>
> Actually, I do the same thing and Evolution WORKSFORME.  I have a NFS
> mounted home directory (autofs on top of that).  I have had some
> problems after the workstation crashed, it caused stale gconfd locks. 
> Running gconf-sanity-check-1 told me what to do.  I haven't tried
> running evolution while logged in to 2 machines, though.  

perhaps your NFS server is configured to support locking and his is not.

(ie, nfs.lockd is running)

> Why should it not work with 1.2.0 when it worked for hime with 1.0.8?

because 1.0.8 didn't use gconf, it used gnome-config by default. (well,
we are talking about GtkHTML here - since evolution doesn't use gconf,
but bonobo-conf instead - at least up to and including 1.2 - 1.4 is
being modified to use gconf exclusively)

Jeff

> Hyo-Je Choi:
>
> Since you are using RedHat 8.0, I think that they are trying to fix this
> kind of issue.  Go have a look at redhat bugzilla...
>
> Etienne
>
>
> > The best place to report this is probably bugzilla.gnome.org under the
> > GConf module. The maintainer may be better able to help you with this
> > problem.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:51:28PM +0900, Hyo-Je Choi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using Redhat 8.0, and my home directory is mounted from other machine using NFS.
> > > I had no problem to use the evolution 1.0.8 which is default e-mail client of Redhat 8.0.
> > > But I had some problem after I upgraded the evolution by red-carpet. (actually, I tried rpm command too)
> > > I couldn't view summary page and mail page. (Calendar, Contact, etc are okay)
> > > So I tried this command :
> > >   > evolution-mail
> > >
> > > The result is like below :
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is
> > > that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't
> > > reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may
> > > need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this problem occurred because of using NFS-mounted home directory ?
> > > Is there anybody who met this problem?
> > >
> > >
> > > Waiting for any answers.
> > >
> > > Thanks..
> > >
> > >
> > >
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