[OpenAFS] gconf lock problem

[Renata Maria Dart]

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>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
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>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Renata Maria Dart wrote:
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>> Thanks to all of you who have responded on this issue...we now have
>> some work-arounds to choose from.  I'll see about testing 1.3xx at some
>> point although I don't know how to force the problem....I think I have
>> seen some instances were a server crash did not necessarily cause
>> the gconf lock problem to occur.
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>Do you do weekly fileserver restarts (or, really, any periodic restart)?

No, no weekly restarts.  The lock problems seem to occur most frequently
following a crash or a fileserver restart.  But we just had a report
of a gconf problem on a server that had last been restarted over 2 weeks 
ago...so possibly that user's xsession had been aborted prematurely.  I'll
try that to reproduce the problem.

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>Actually, hm, an idea I hadn't considered: what if the volume moves at the 
>right time...
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