Re: gconfd and multiple machines

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> 
> 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).

Yah I killed all apps and gconfd - cleared nfs locks in the homedir, etc
on both systems.

set up the local lock environment variable script in /etc/profile.d

Then I logged in on one. No changes would take effect on that single
system until I logged out and back in.

so I did that, and I could make changes.

Then I logged into another machine on that same account (with the same
local gconf environment variable set) and their config was a bit screwy.

After logging out and in a couple of times on either system while
changing things I noticed that on one machine the configuration was
positively hosed up.

Desktop icons became just white paper icons (the default icon for
nautilus afaict) - until I went into gconf-editor and fixed in manually.

I intend to give it some more tests. I did this quickly b/c it could
help deal with some problems we have had with users complaining about no
simultaneous logins.

Thanks
-sv