Bug#208344: Argh, locking...

[Adam Porter]

On Friday 05 May 2006 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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?

No, everything is local.

>
> > 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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