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- From: betsy@vesuvius.esd.sgi.com (Betsy Zeller)
- Subject: Re: Workspace doesn't start
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.044402.10193@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Keywords: workspace nfs nis
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov10.111631.27264@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:44:02 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Nov10.111631.27264@uts.uni-c.dk>, carlkb@uts.uni-c.dk (Klaus Bock) writes:
- |> Some of our users cannot start workspace. It simply hangs as a process
- |> for ever, having used 0 cpu seconds. No display appears.
- |>
- |> The users have home directories that are accessed via NFS. We don't run
- |> Yellow Pages (and we don't want to!).
- |>
- |> However, for some users it IS possible to start workspace, even though
- |> their home directory is accessed via NFS.
- |>
- |> We run 4.0.1 on the machine to start workspace, and 4.0.5 on the machine
- |> that exports the home directory of the users in question.
- |>
- |> Does anyone know anything about this???
- |>
- |> Regards,
- |>
- |> Mogens Kjaer
- |> Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of chemistry
- |> Gl. Carlsberg Vej 10
- |> DK-2500 Valby
- |> Denmark
- |> carlkb@uts.uni-c.dk
-
- The problem here is that Workspace checks to see whether there
- is a workspace process for that user on that machine, before it
- starts up. In 4.0.1, the mechanism that it used did not work
- well over NFS. A different mechanism was used in 4.0.5, and the
- problem will not occur on machines running that release.
-
- To work around it, you can go to the users ~/.workspace directory,
- and remove the file called .wsLock<machinename>.0.0
- Instead, create a symbolic link in ~/.workspace/.wsLock<machinename>.0.0, and
- have it point to /usr/tmp/.wsLock<machinename>.<user>
-
- eg ln -s /usr/tmp/.wsLockvesuvius.betsy ~/.wsLockvesuvius.0.0
-
- would do the job for user betsy on vesuvius
-
- This should allow your users to run workspace. The problem
- is fixed in 4.0.5.
-
- Betsy Zeller
- betsy@sgi.com
-