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Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato



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/Defaults/WindowMaker) from defaults database."  The
> WindowMaker configuration file is never opened, and I'm not able to change
> or save it.

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 well.)

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