homes on NFS: Failed to lock: NFS 4 in Hoary ?

[Johannes Behr]

Hi,

> > I run warty with nis-users. The nis-user
> > have there homes on (auto-mounted) nfs
> > devices. Everything works fine but everytime
> > I try to start a gnome application (e.g. gedit)
> > I get the following warning multiple times:
> > 
> > ** (gedit:10308): WARNING **: Failed to lock:  No locks available
> > 
> > The application starts correct after 4-5 seconds.
> > 
> > Since I get the warning message only for nis-users
> > with nfs-homes I assume that gnome tries
> > to lock some files/data on my nfs-dir
> > 
> > Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
> 
> I have to admit that I don't know the solution but I might be able to
> point you in a direction. My understanding is that nfs has incredibly
> poor locking so you might try upgrading to the new version of nfs (4 I
> think) which is supposed to have remedied this problem.

Do I have to change the NFS server or client to NFS 4? There is no NFS 4
package in warty. Is there a NFS 4 package in Hoary?

> The other suggestion would be to try a different protocol like SMB
> which provides proper locking and some security.

Well. The System runs in a pure Unix environment. Only IRIX, SunOS
and some Linux workstations. No SMB :(. I don't think I can 
get our Sys-admin to install smaba on our Solaris server.

Regards,
  Johannes