This one time, at band camp, Antoine Jacoutot said: > Hi, > > I'm not quite sure it is the right list for that, but I though I would give a try. > I'm using Woody+Gnome2 (from deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody > gnome2; as explained at http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html). > I think there's a problem with the Nautilus2 package and NFS. > I use autofs+NIS+NFS so I get my /home mounted over NFS on a server, but > it is almost not usuable on the desktop since Nautilus crashes all the > time (when browsing/previewing a folder, right clicking on a text > file......) --> meaning it freezes the machine totally (the only thing > left to do is the Magic SysrKey; nothing in the logs). > This behaviour does not occur with konqueror nor Nautilus1 nor Nautilus2 > from SID, so I really think there must be a problem with this package. > > If you have any idea how to solve this, please let me know, I'd be very > happy to use Gnome2... (Nautilus1 is SO SLLOOWWW). > > Best regards. > > Antoine I don't know the solution to your problem, but I do remember seeing that there were locking issues with an NFS mounted /home and GNOME2. If you search the archives of this list, there may be a solution. It may be that using a later version of NFS, or disabling locking will fix the problem, although I don't think disabling locking sounds like a good idea. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | If the very old will remember, the very | | steve@lobefin.net | young will listen. -- Chief Dan | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | George | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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