Malfunction of GNOME or its components

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 8.1

Symptom:

You have home directory on AFS or NFS and you have problems with Gnome or Gnome component malfunction.

Cause:

There is problem with locking of GConf demon files.

Solution:

Create on the local volume directory /home-local/user for each user by entering the following command as root: mkdir -p /home-local/user/.gconf /home-local/user/.gconfd

Give write access for user by command:

chown -R user:users /home-local/user

If directories exist use command mv:

mv /home/user/.gconf /home/user/.gconfd /home-local/user/

Then create symbolic links by command:

ln -s /home-local/user/.gconf /home-local/user/.gconfd /home/user/

(home-local for directory with write access for user; user for user name)

Note: Directory /home-local/user/.gconf contains configuration of Gnome. You must have actual copy of this directory on each computer which you will use.

With NFS3 you can solve this problem by correct configuration of lock daemon (locks enabled in fstab and nfslock service running on both client and server)


Keywords: 8.1, GNOME2, AFS, NFS, LOCK

Categories: Applications

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