From: Bob Vickers (bobv@cs.rhul.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 09:20:16 EDT
Dear All,
I have recently been using the Galeon web browser (on Linux), and it is a
wonderful piece of software. However, it relies on some software called
gconf to manage its configuration, and I have been having a lot of trouble
with gconf in the situation where the user's home directory
resides on a Tru64 NFS server (specifically an advfs file system on
Tru64 4.0G PK3 plus security patches).
gconf uses fcntl64 to manage lock files in the home directory and the
locking mechanism often goes wrong, particularly when it is releasing
locks. I have been in touch with the maintainer of gconf and he feels that
Tru64 is at fault.
I do not have the knowledge to confirm or deny this. But I would be very
interested in feedback from other users:
(1) Do you have any experience (good or bad) running Galeon when home
directories live on a Tru64 server?
(2) Do you know of any file-locking problems other Linux applications have
that are specific to Tru64 NFS servers? If so are there any good
solutions?
Thanks for your attention,
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
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