Gedit failed to lock

[Anders Trobäck]

Found a workaround for my problem! Maybe not the most beautiful but it 
works for me:

touch /tmp/.recently-used_username
ln -s /tmp/.recently-used_username ~/.recently-used

\\anders

Anders Troback wrote:
> OK. thanks!
> 
> I will try to find out why...if I find a soluton I let you know!
> 
> \\anders
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 21:41 +0200, Anders Troback wrote:
>>
>>> I removed the file but no luck:-(
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I don't any any other suggestions.  I use gedit with NFS
>> everyday, and I've never seen these lock failures after I enabled
>> rpc.lockd and rpc.statd.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>> \\anders
>>>
>>> Joe Marcus Clarke skrev:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 20:29 +0200, Anders Troback wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yes I did! Tryed too start it manaly but no luck so I did a reboot...
>>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It works for me over NFS here.  You might try the other suggestion of
>>>> periodically zeroing out the ~/.recently-used file.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke skrev:
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:24 +0200, Anders Troback wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe not for this list but how do you enable rpc_lockd?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I entered rpc_lockd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf on both NFS 
>>>>>>> server and NFS client but no change.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gedit is not alone, many apps do the same...
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you reboot both machines after doing this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> \\anders
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:40 +0200, Anders Troback wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>>>        
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm new to the list so bare with me!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When I'm running gedit over XDMCP I got a:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WARNING **: Failed to lock: Operation not supported
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> After a few seconds gedit starts and works just fine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I run it as root or as a user on the console (XDM on the 
>>>>>>>>> server), no warning and the program starts instantly.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I noticed this problem in 2.8 and it still exists in 2.10. Only 
>>>>>>>>> tried on 5.3-STABLE and 5.4-PRERELEASE.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Not a big problem but the seconds feels like a decade:-)
>>>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Chances are you're running off of an NFS volume.  In which case, 
>>>>>>>> both
>>>>>>>> the NFS server and client must be running rpc.lockd.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>>>        
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> \\anders
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>>>          
>>>
>>>
> 

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