Bug#208344: Argh, locking...

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 00:59 -0500, Adam Porter a écrit :
> severity 208344 important
> thanks
> 
> Well, I looked at the e-mail logcheck just sent me, and I found this:
> 
> gconfd (me-19567): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to 
> lock '/tmp/gconfd-me/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or 
> your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource 
> temporarily unavailable)
> 
> I killall-9'ed gconfd-2 and removed that lock file, and now Newton's working.  
> So I'm downgrading it back to important.

Are you using NFS for your /tmp?

> The problem is, those crazy CORBA errors gave _no indication_ of the actual 
> problem.

Yes, this is more or less cryptic, but this isn't supposed to happen at
all now the lock file is in /tmp.

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