On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:01, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > Since sharing my home directory using NFS / automount, I sometimes > find the following message on the X Window screen before Gnome gets > going. > > "Your preferences files are currently in use. (If you are logged in to > this same account from another computer, the other login session is > probably using your preferences files.) You can choose to continue, > but be aware that other login sessions may become temporarily > confused. If you are not logged in elsewhere, it should be harmless to > continue." [Cancel] [Continue] I get this every time I log in, and it's really annoying me. I think it's been occurring for me ever since GNOME started playing up: Nautilus sits there saying "Searching your hard disks for Trash folders" indefinitely, and the Log Out menu item does not log me out. For me this is probably just a symptom of a bigger problem. > So, who's holding what preferences files open Probably nobody. > Am I the first one to try sharing home directories via NFS and > automount? Or, am I doing something remarkably stupid? For everything to work properly, you need NFS locking enabled, but I think you get a different error message if you don't have locking. A possible way to get the error message to disappear is to log out, remove ~/.gconfd, remove ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock, and log back in, but chances are you'll see it again if something else is amiss. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@xxxxxxxxxx> Adacel Technologies -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
