Description of problem: Users whose home directory is on an nfs-mounted disk cannot login. The message box states Could not lock /users/jay/.gconf-test-locking-file. The /users disk resides on a Tru-64 Unix system. The error box suggests that nfslock may be disabled, but it is enabled. It says that the error reported is Permission Denied (errno=13). I even tried giving the Red Hat system root privelege on this disk, but it made no difference. The problem occurs only with Linux 8.0; all previous Red Hat Linux systems were able to log in without problems. This has made version 8.0 completely unusable for us, since all of our users have their home directories mounted remotely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Linux 8.0 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ has a workaround, search for GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS. Other than that all you can really do is get Tru64 NFS fixed to support locking. POSIX locking has been standard for many many years, and NFS is supposed to support it. We have a long term plan to avoid the need to lock in the user's home directory, but not something that can be fixed simply.