Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 16, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user- >space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the It's in the very last 2.2.x kernels. >user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard, part

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marco d'Itri said: > Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user- space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard, particularly given the l

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 15, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a > >problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to > >create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable >

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marco d'Itri said: > On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they > They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running 2.2.9 on both of the machines on my ne

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a >problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to >create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable You are using a 2.2 kernel

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Not a solution and I'm not terribly happy with it, but I've been able to work > around this problem by adding nolock to /home's line in fstab. (I also NFS > mount /var/cache/apt and had to add a nolock to that as wel

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
Noah L. Meyerhans said: > I'm having a problem that seems to be related to NFS on potato. Here's > the setup: > /home is mounted via NFS. When I run WPrefs, the configuration tool > included with Window Maker, I get the following error: > "Could not open Window Maker domain > (/home/frodo/GNUstep

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > I understand that fcntl locks don't work over NFS, but apparently fcntl > used to set errno to ENOLCK if you tried it, while now it sets it to > EACCESS. That's apparently why the same code worked fine on > slink. libPropList will work fine if i

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I understand that fcntl locks don't work over NFS, but apparently fcntl used to set errno to ENOLCK if you tried it, while now it sets it to EACCESS. That's apparently why the same code worked fine on slink. libPropList will work fine if it's not able to establ

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they "sort of" work in 2.2 kernels, but I wouldn't count on it). Even if they work over NFS they may not work with other networked file systems or on non-Linux systems. So the fix is actually complicated, libPropList needs to u