Gedit failed to lock

Anders Troback gnome at troback.com
Wed Apr 6 09:23:57 PDT 2005


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...

\\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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