Fedora 9: dbus problems with /home on nfs

[John Austin]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2008 12:47:25 Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:28 +0200
> > >
> > > David Jansen <jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> > > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > > I have noticed some kind of problem with logging in
> > > via GDM when I use a user with an NFS home, but never
> > > investigated exactly what the problem was because it
> > > is usually only by accident that I try it.
> > >
> > > I have no problem just getting a ssh shell for an NFS
> > > user, but trying to do the full blown GUI session
> > > login, something always seems to go wrong, and all or part
> > > of the expected interface never comes up.
> > >
> > > My solution is to avoid NFS like the plague - it always
> > > seems to screw up if you try to write any data across
> > > it. It can almost do reads reliably (except when it can't).
> > 
> > I've never tried using an nfs mount as my home directory, but I do have an nfs 
> > mount to my remote /home in fstab.  All important stuff is on there, so I 
> > read and write files regularly.  I've had no problems whatsoever with this.
> 
> For years I ran a lab of 30-50 workstations all mounting /home from a
> couple of NFS servers. This was on several generations of NFS in the
> original Sun versions, and though we did consider alternatives such as
> AFS or even Coda from time to time, none of them ever looked like
> realistic alternatives in our environment. IIRC the problems tended to
> be much more with NIS (Yellow Pages) than NFS.
> 
> poc
> 
I have been using NFS for many years for /home at least
as long ago as Redhat 9
Currently using
autofs, NIS, NFS for /home on F9 x86-64 and F8 i386 and x86-64
Often logged in on several different machines using the same account !
No problems
I just don't believe that NFS is the problem !!
BUT
I'm using kdm and not gdm
and NetworkManager is not involved !!


John