Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gconf
I'm testing kerberos with NFSv4, and this particular bug has been
annoyed me for too long, sorry for not filing it earlier..
When your $HOME is on a network filesystem protected by kerberos, you
lose all access priviledges when the kerberos ticket expires (usually
12h). So for instance if you lock your screen after the work hours,
sometime in the night the apps don't have access to your $HOME anymore.
When you unlock the screen, the ticket is refreshed and all is well
(pam_krb deals with that, gnome-screensaver et al support that).
But, gconfd can become confused some time after the ticket has expired.
I don't know what happens, but it doesn't regain the ability to use the
$HOME when the ticket is refreshed, instead the app that needs to poke
at the configuration spawns a new daemon. This obviously brings problems
every time an app tries to save some setting, so you get an error-popup
when you just hit the capslock ("No database available to save your
configuration....").
Killing all the gconfd's is a workaround, but obviously not what I'm
after :) Please let me know how to debug this further.
** Affects: gconf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gconfd becomes confused when $HOME is temporarily unavailable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181760
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