Hrm... Easy enough to test.

Is there a way to disable that behavior? Or even just change the
timeout? Why would I want that anyways?

Thanks!

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:38, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> I don't think this is an NFS lock problem.  From your description, you are 
> running a GNOME 2.x-based desktop.  That uses gconfd, a program to manage 
> configuration information.  Gconfd does *not* exit when you log out.  It 
> waits like five minutes in case you log in again.  So, it is holding its 
> own lockfile open.  If you log out and then log back in at the text 
> console and issue a gconftool-2 --shutdown you will be able to log in at 
> another machine.
> 
> Alternatively, wait the five minutes for it to shut itself down.  :-)
> 
> --Jason
> 
> On 17 Aug 2003, Matt Neimeyer wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I've got three machines at home all running the same versions of
> > everything (so far as I can tell). Machine A is running NFS and
> > exporting several home directories. If I go to Machine B first and log
> > on to my profile it works but when I log out and walk over to Machine C
> > it gives me the following error.
> > 
> > Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following
> > problem: Could not resolve the address "xml:readwrite:/home/matt/.gconf"
> > in the configuration file "/etc/gconf/2/path": Failed to lock
> > '/home/matt/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior': probably another
> > process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking
> > misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> > 
> > If I go to either Machine B or Machine C first it works. If I log out
> > then reboot I can go anywhere. If I don't reboot the first machine I log
> > in to I can't log in anywhere else. This is for any profile and any
> > order of machine log in/out.
> > 
> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
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