[TriLUG] Redhat 8 upgrade toubles

[Jeff Jackowski]

I need some help getting the computer I use most to work properly again. I 
upgraded it from Redhat 7.1 (I think; I don't upgrade very often) to 8. A 
few minor things, like "rpm -q" no longer work, but the real problem is 
that I can only use X when I'm logged in as root.

When I log in with my regular user account and start X, I'm told that the 
file .gconf-test-locking-file couldn't be locked. /home is mounted on NFS, 
so that seems a likely culprit. The server is a Redhat 7.0 system that 
I've been ugrading without Redhat's help. Its running a 2.4.20 kernel and 
I just gave it nfs-utils-1.0.1 and util-linux-2.11z in an attempt to 
resolve this problem.

The statd and lockd stuff are running, but I get "lockdsvc: invalid 
argument" when I try to start the lock daemon. Stuff on the web says this 
isn't a problem, but since there is a problem and I don't know what it is, 
I figured it was worth mentioning.

Thanks for any help, and have fun!

-- 
Jeff Jackowski
        http://ro.com/~jeffj/