Re: gconfd and multiple machines

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:16:23PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: 
> curiously enough if you take the other tack and make gconfd put its lock
> files in /tmp you end up with all sorts of oddities on rhl 9.
> 
> if I set that up on a user. then login to a single machine as that user
> then settings changes won't take place for that user until I logout,
> after that they are ok, but they do odd things when you login to
> multiple machines. It's like the last-written semantic is only partially
> true.
> 
> I can send more debug logs if anyone is interested in the strange and
> wonderful errors I received.

I'm interested in what goes wrong with the local locks - assuming you
switch to local locks with all apps/gconfd exited, I wouldn't expect
too much weirdness (unless you go back and forth between the machines
changing stuff on each as fast as you can).

Havoc