Good question. In fact, that's part of why I think a simpler, tighter "Here's the keystrokes to abort your session" style message might be preferable to something which recommended the user log out - users home directories might be on NFS, or might be on a USB stick, or who knows where... so how to word things generically, and how to code things which accommodate all of the scenarios, makes this a much more subtle and interesting problem than it appears on the surface.
Kind regards, -Paul Reiber Mobile: (210)854-8253 Home: (210)545-2487 Email: p...@reiber.org Web: http://bit.ly/reiber On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Geir Ove Myhr <gom...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've run Hardy on a few computers where the home directories were NFS- > mounted. Because of some NFS-problems they would sometimes lose the > connection, and thus the users would have no home directory. In that > case, there would always be a notification box right after login which > said something like "I cannot find the home directory /home/username. > This is llikely to break things, but you may try to log in if you wish. > Click OK to log in or Cancel to cancel." (in a much better wording). > > I'm not sure if it was gdm or some other component that did this. The > computers had gdm, but otherwise both ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop > was installed and I would usually log in to KDE, but I guess without the > home directory there was no way for gdm to know that. So is it the new, > fast, and feature stripped gdm that shipped with Karmic that turned this > into a problem? > > -- > Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516929 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516929 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
