Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase
I can reproduce this bug 100% of the time. Many KDE applications crash with the following output from the command line (K Interactive Geometry (kig) is an example here and 'user' is a user logged in via his LDAP account): WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile /home/KAS/user/.kde/share/config/kigrc.lock Other KDE apps like kgoldrunner, ksokoban, and kbruch also produce the same error. This is only happening with users who have logged in via their LDAP account on clients. If you log in using an account local to the machine, all of these applications run just fine. We are using Ubuntu 8.04.2 on all client machines and same with the server. Just to make sure, I created a brand new account (teststudent) on the server and tried running ksokoban and kig on a client. The error just loops until I kill it with ctrl-Z. The files in question do exist. Here is the output of the folder: teststud...@gnu6:~/.kde/share/config$ ls -l total 3072 -rwxr--r-- 1 teststudent student 23 2009-04-30 12:16 kconf_updaterc.lock -rwxr--r-- 1 teststudent student 14 2009-04-30 12:19 kigrc.lock -rwxr--r-- 1 teststudent student 19 2009-04-30 12:18 ksokobanrc.lock" The original bug is against LDAP, but I don't think that's related. I reproduced the bug using the same environment, but haven't tried to reproduce it without LDAP authentication. The result is the application newer appears on the desktop, and is producing the errors on the terminal: WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile /home/KAS/stu/.kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile /home/KAS/stu/.kde/share/config/kconf_updaterc.lock ... - cut - After deleting manually the lock file the error appear again with new lock file: WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile /home/KAS/stu/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals.lock WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile /home/KAS/stu/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals.lock ... - cut - The upstream bug is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156759 Comments 19 through 36 look to be the most relevant ... http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156759#c19 Particularly comment 24 - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156759#c24 "For all users which can not wait for an KDE update. Here is a workaround: Add the option "serverino" when mounting a CIFS share. I tested this which Samba 3.x on the server side. I do not know if this works with Windows on the server side too." ... "Thanks for the tip. It solved the problem for me on two out of three shares. Just a warning though: According to the mount.cifs man page you should NOT use this workaround if your share spans more than one disk partition on the server, as that would give you duplicate inode numbers on the client (two files, same mount, same inode number = trouble)." ** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [hardy] KDE applications crash on clients with CIFS mounted home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388636 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs