[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000151]: Unable to save Preferences with NFS mounted Homedir

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000151
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Reporter:                   buebo
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000151
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-03-21 19:02 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-03-23 15:25 GMT
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Summary:                    Unable to save Preferences with NFS mounted Homedir
Description: 
XFCE is unable to save any customized Preferences if the Homedir is mounted
via NFS, you can customize for one Session, but xfce-mcs-manager errors
with "Operation not Supported"

See also this Post:
http://xfce.lindesign.se/db/viewtopic.php?t=284&highlight=freebsd+nfs

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 buebo - 2004-03-21 19:03 GMT 
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btw. XFCE Version is 4.4 build from the Ports, the problem was with 4.2
though.

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 olivier - 2004-03-21 20:12 GMT 
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Sorry, I run xfce with my homedir on NFS w//out the slightest problem at
work (so do quite a few others too), so I think the problem is elsewhere.


Cheers,
Olivier.

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 buebo - 2004-03-21 20:36 GMT 
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Do have any mount-options set? 
My setup's pretty much copy'n'pasted from the FBSD-Handbook, so I'm not to
sure what's wrong here, espacially since all other apps I'm runnig behave
ok.

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 buebo - 2004-03-23 01:58 GMT 
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I just double and triple checked everything I can think of and I still
think this is some kind of error on the side of xfce, since no other
programm behaves similar or errors when writing to the NFS-directory.
Strange enough the problem just occours when trying to write the change of
the background image, all other settings (e.g. menu items, taskbar, etc.)
are fully functional, also this seems to be an FreeBSD specific problem,
but it's definatly reproducible and I had contact to some other people
with the same problem. I do have a trace of mcs-manager available if
somebody's intressted in working on it.
It's also no problem at all if you need aditional Informations about the
specific setup.

edited on: 03-23 01:58

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 buebo - 2004-03-23 15:25 GMT 
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Just wanted to add that the xfce4-menueditor errors with something similar,
when trying to save to the NFS-Directory:

I/O error : Permission denied
I/O error : Permission denied

(yes, double)
I have heard that this Problem just occours when both the NFS-Server and
the NFS-Client run FreeBSD.
I don't wanna annoy you to death, but I'm pretty sure that this is some
fault on the side of xfce since I'm able to reproduce it on various
machines with plain vanilla installs of everything.

Cheers