Re: local locks

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:38:44PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:41:08PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> > If the app can't find a working gconfd then the app will be responsible 
> > for any fallback. This can't be gconfd responsibility since it 
> > apparently isn't around. I suspect that the app may use a hardwired 
> > fallback font, and on machine#2 that font may not be available.
> 
> i have a small 4 computer network with NFS mounted /home.
> gconf-sanity-check-1 fails practically every day.  It's
> almost not worth using gnome because gconf is daily
> borked.  When can i switch over to local locks?

You can use local locks now on Red Hat Linux 8 or 9, set 
GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1 in /etc/profile.d/something

With the caveat about local DOS noted at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

If you have daily borkage that probably means your NFS is screwed up
though. There was a bug in nfsutils for a long time, 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59245
this was upstream afaik so would have affected non-Red-Hat also.

Havoc