Sven Heinicke said: > About two weeks ago I installed stable, with unstable OpenOffice, on a > user system with security updates. The user, alples, has an NFS /home > directery mounted from a Sun I don't have root access to. > > In the began the nfs /home directory mounted: soft,bg,rw
bug in NFS. try restarting rpc.statd on the local system, if its a debian box, do; /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart also try mounting the directory hard mount -t nfs nfs_server:/path /local/path -o nfsvers=3,hard that may help too. It's technically not a gnome problem, but a NFS locking issue. most any program which relies on locking will break when it cannot get a lock, and the cause is a bug in NFS somewhere. In my experience it happens far more often on the SERVER then the client (if both are debian), but if the server is solaris I am more inclined to blame the client. for me I tracked the problem down to rpc.statd. I don't know the exact cause but for some reason it stops responding at random points(seems random anyways). The process doesn't die, but a restart fixes it. It probably happens more often the more locking that goes on. most of the apps I use do not use locking(with the exception of gnotepad+, I use afterstep, gnome-terminal and phoenix/mozilla/openoffice as my most commonly used apps). check the archives too, this comes up rather often. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
