begin quote On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 02:10:58 -0500 Matt Neimeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When our user directories are mounted locally there isn't a problem in > the world. But when I try and migrate them to our nfs server... I get > errors in the everything log on the client (I can't see anything else > that seems to relate in any other logs or in logs on the server). I've > tried googling and those responses I can find seem to indicate > permissions problems but I've synched the user id and set and reset > the permissions/owner on the files in that folder. > are you 100% that the same UID for users on all machines? That would be there hint here... if they mismatch, things will bork. *cough* > matt is the user I am trying to log in as. I can successfully log in > and manipulate files in a text console it's only via a gui (gnome in > this case) log on that things go south. The behavior is log in with > username and password. wait 5 seconds and it's back to the log on > prompt. The root user can log in to gnome fine. That root logs in fine isn't much of a marvel, root is local user and always uid 0. I'm using gnome on multiple terminals at work (all nfs mounted /home ) and I know for a fact it works ... So lets see this through. > Dec 6 01:37:08 [xdm(pam_unix)] session opened for user matt by > (uid=0) You logged in, user "root" gave you your access. > Dec 6 01:37:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] starting (version 2.4.0.1), pid > 2750 user 'matt' gconf started, all seems to work > Dec 6 01:37:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config > source at position 0 It found where it reads system mandatory defaults, all works. (mandatory defaults are settings you aren't allowed to change) > Dec 6 01:37:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] Resolved address > "xml:readwrite:/home/matt/.gconf" to a writable config source at > position 1 It found where it can read and write your own defaults.. all works > Dec 6 01:37:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config > source at position 2 It found where it can read the system defaults. > Dec 6 01:37:09 [xdm(pam_unix)] session closed for user matt You logged out. > Dec 6 01:38:56 [login(pam_unix)] session closed for user matt you logged out.. again? > Dec 6 01:38:56 [pam_console] getgrnam failed for cdwriter bug in /etc/security/console.perms, it refers to the group "cdwriter" instead of "cdrw". (bug has been filed, but change it if you dislike this message) > Dec 6 01:39:02 [login(pam_unix)] session opened for user root > by(uid=0) Root logs in >Dec 6 01:39:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] GConf server is not in use, >shutting down. gconf realizes that matt hasn't been doing anything for a few minutes and shuts itself down. > Dec 6 01:39:09 [gconfd (matt-2750)] Exiting All worked, shutdown. as is fairly clear here, nothing interesting is in this snippet of syslog, look inside ~/.gnomerc-errors for eventual error messages from Gnome. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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