On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:51:50PM -0600, Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi all. > > I help support a research group in which several not-too-savvy users run > on KDE. Since converting their machines from Mandrake to Debian/Woody, > they've started having problems with .DCOP* files being left behind in > their home directories after they log out of their KDE sessions, with > the result that when they try to log back in again, nothing works. > > We can write various hacks that will get rid of the .DCOP files, but > does anybody know what might be causing this in the first place? Their > home directories are NFS mounted from a fileserver (still Mandrake, > kernel release 2.4.18, glibc version 2.2.2-4mdk), but other than that > this is a pretty vanilla installation of Woody, so I expect that if > we're having this problem somebody else must have run across it; > nonetheless, all my attempts to STFW come up empty so far. Perhaps it's just another stupid nfs locking issue? Are you using a modern NFS server/client? AIUI, the NFS code in mainline kernels is always a little behind what's actually available and stable... -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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