On Dec 10, 2010, at 15:58 , Stephen Joyce wrote: > I gave up gnome back around RedHat 8.x days due to issues with AFS homedirs. > Has gnome with afs homedirs improved any since then?
Yes, it works quite well on EL3/4/5/6. We still export GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1, but I think it hasn't been required for a while now. And as of EL6, the trash bin works (no longer seems empty while anything dropped there is stored in ~/.Trash and eats up users' home quotas). -- Stephan > Anyway, we don't see the login problems you describe on Kubuntu 10.4. KDE > does have its own issues with lingering processes, but nothing annoying > enough to move to the top of my priority list. > > Are you using pam_afs_session? What do the relevant portions of your pam > configs look like, if you don't mind sharing with the group? Actually first, > are CLI console logins reliable and always get tokens? (might be chasing the > wrong goose here, but wanted to start with the basics). > > -- > Stephen > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Thomas Briggs wrote: > >> We use a mixed environment of Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OSX machines in our labs >> and classrooms. After our upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, are users are noticing >> that the first time they log in, GDM accepts their password, starts a >> session, and then terminates. They can usually log in the second time, >> though sometimes it takes two or three tries. After a few days of running, >> a 'ps -eaf' shows stray processes from just about every user, and every >> login session since the last reboot. >> >> Why am I asking here? Because this doesn't seem to be widespread Ubuntu >> problem, and I suspect it has something to do with the interaction between >> some new aberration of nature in Ubuntu 10.04 (and there are many) and the >> user's home directories, which are on AFS, and hopefully there is another >> school using it for their classrooms like we. Also, people on this group >> seem to be more helpful, patient, intelligent, and just downright better >> people :-) -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
