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gksu package

gksu doesn't use locking on nfs /home

Bug #14527 reported by Shish
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Bug Description

Bug 13387 says lockfile writing was fixed in 1.2.3-2ubuntu4, this is 1.2.4-1ubuntu4.

The first time I run somehting with gksu, the window pops up OK, but this
message is output:

** (gksu:8732): WARNING **: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file
/home/shish/.gksu.lock

Then all further times there's no window, just this message:

** (gksu:8748): CRITICAL **: fcntl error

** (gksu:8748): WARNING **: Lock taken by pid: -1. Exiting.

When manually removing ~/.gksu.lock, it works one more time, then leaves another
stale lock.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I uploaded gksu_1.2.4-1ubuntu5 today that will fix this problem. It will not use
locking at all when it runs on a FS with no locks available (and cleans the
stale lockfiles).

I leave this bug open as a reminder to add locking support even when run on NFS
homedirs, but I'm kind of scared to fix it now so close before the release.

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Laurent Bigonville (bigon) wrote :

What the status of this bug?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is still not fixed in gksu

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nipuL (lucas-die) wrote :

Still get this problem on Edgy Eft 6.10...

I get around it by doing the following

mv ~/.gksu.lock /tmp/gksu-lucas.lock
ln -s /tmp/gksu-lucas.lock ~/.gksu.lock

Perhaps the code could be patched to change the lockfile location?

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in gksu (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
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