Re: Faster automatic shutdown

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 04:42, Sean Atkinson wrote:
> 
> However the client fails to access gconfd-2 when running on the server,
> reporting a COMM_FAILURE.  The logs indicate this is because a second
> gconfd-2 is started locally but exits since it fails to acquire the lock
> over NFS.  As far as I can tell NFS locking works - the services are
> running, and desktop login seems fine.  I guess the client machine isn't
> connecting to the server's gconfd-2 for some reason, so it goes on to
> try a starting it locally.

strace -o /tmp/output -f gconfd-2 is good for debugging. Also,
gconf-sanity-check-2 will check whether locking works at all on your NFS
mount.

Havoc