Bug#293319: gconf2: seeing the same error with NFS

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.8.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #293319

I'm seeing this error also with NFS-mounted home directories.  gconf
seems to work fine on the NFS server (where my home directory is), 
but gives the following errors when run on an NFS client (home 
directory accessed via NFS.)

Some of the error message implies that there may be file locking issues.
I have verified that file locking is working correctly for the NFS
mount.  I have also tried removing all gnome/gtk configuration data from
my home directory.  

I get error messages for many different keys.  All have the same form as
the following one:

Error setting value for
`/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb.sysbackup/layouts': Unable to
store a value at key
'/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb.sysbackup/layouts', as the
configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common
causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file
/etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2)
somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating
system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home
directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly
notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you
have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was
launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back
in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps
the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at
once, and ORBit still has its default configuration t...




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-22      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4            2.8.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.6.4-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.6.4-3           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.2-1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                2.6.16-7          GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime

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