http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6140
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-15-10 21:08 ------- Frederic is right concerning rebooting: if one knows which services to restart to reset something, one never needs to reboot. Unfortunately, I moved to gnome quite recently, and I am not at all aware of all its components and their relationship, so the safest way for me to come back to a "normal" state is to reboot the whole computer :-( I noticed a strange behavior with my autofs: each user in my lab has its home directory on a server. The auto.home file is dispached via YP. the server is running RH 7.3. Many of my colleagues are running RH9 (only two of us [for the moment :-=)] are running Mandrake). On the RH boxes, and with the previous mandrake I think, when I log in, only my home directory is mounted via NFS. right now, when I start the computer, a script mount the directory of all the users, and then unmount them after a period of inactivity. This looks very strange. Does anyone know if that behavior is normal or not? -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEW creation_date: description: Environment : /home NFS mount ( vers=3, tcp, rsize=8192, wsize=8192, nosuid, soft, intr, timeo=600 ) serveur = mdk 9.1 + soft RAID1 ( ext3 partition ), PIV client = current cooker ( 2.4.22-10mdk, GConf-1.0.9-11mdk, GConf2-2.4.0.1-1mdk, nfs-utils-clients-1.0.5-1mdk, kdebase-3.1.92-2mdk, metacity-2.6.1-1mdk ), AMD Symptoms : if for example I quit abruptly gnome - CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE ), next time I want to log, I can't because gnome can't remove the lock ( or find a lock ) in ~/tmp/gconf-username/ ( this location change between mdk 9.1 and mdk 9.2, before this was ~/.gconfd/... ). Sometimes you can read the message saying that you have a locking problem ( and thus read the path to the lock ) but sometimes you see nothing ( just some windows with dash instead of text ... ). A bad combinaisaison is when you log in and have the gnome preference daemon bug ( see #6138 ), then you decide to stop everything before it mess up your session config ( as it asks to remove some applets ... ) by hitting CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. You reboot the computer to resolve the problem ( argh )and when you try to log in again ... gconf locking problem ( so you need to remove manually the lock ) and then you can log in ( so 3 attempts and 1 reboot just to log in in Gnome ! ). This is really painfull when you have several computers to administer under gnome. the locking proble can be solve by erasing by hand the lock at each gnome start ( i put this in /etc/gnome/gnomerc ), but this is just a hack. Gnome is really too fragile in an NFS environment ...
