SEO

#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:35 AM

Hi,

I've got a system here using secure LDAP (on the localhost) for
authenication, but the homedirs are on a another machine, accessed
through NFS.

Everything works fine, except logging out.
Most programs get shut down, but I'm always left with the cursor on a
black screen, and when I run ps- ef | grep username in a virtual console
there is still a bunch of stuff running.
Waiting does not help, and sometimes I get a crash report from kicker,
but the only way I can get back to the KDE login is by resetting the
Xserver by hand.

I've created a testuser, with a local homedir and there things work OK,
so it must have to do with the fact that I'm using NFS.

Is there anything I can look into to make this glitch go away?

Thanks,

Wimmy

--
Pringles original intention was to make tennisballs, but when the rubber
was supposed to show up a big truckload of potatoes showed up instead.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:35 AM

Wim Cossement wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a system here using secure LDAP (on the localhost) for
> authenication, but the homedirs are on a another machine, accessed
> through NFS.
>
> Everything works fine, except logging out.
> Most programs get shut down, but I'm always left with the cursor on a
> black screen, and when I run ps- ef | grep username in a virtual console
> there is still a bunch of stuff running.
> Waiting does not help, and sometimes I get a crash report from kicker,
> but the only way I can get back to the KDE login is by resetting the
> Xserver by hand.
>
> I've created a testuser, with a local homedir and there things work OK,
> so it must have to do with the fact that I'm using NFS.
>
> Is there anything I can look into to make this glitch go away?

Look at the /var/log/messages on both machines and see what kind of error you
may get for NFS. When running the following services: netmount nfsmount portmap
on the nfs client, I haven't had any problems, you may need no_root_squash on
the /etc/exports on the nfs server.

KDE works fine here for me.

//Aho

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:35 AM

J.O. Aho wrote:

> Look at the /var/log/messages on both machines and see what kind of
> error you may get for NFS. When running the following services: netmount
> nfsmount portmap
> on the nfs client, I haven't had any problems, you may need
> no_root_squash on the /etc/exports on the nfs server.
>
> KDE works fine here for me.

Hey Aho,

I looked and the only thing I have here in my logs is this:
<kern.notice> lockd: cannot monitor nfs.server.ip
<kern.notice> lockd: failed to monitor nfs.server.ip
from time to time.

On the server I don't see anything special, and since it's a Sun machine
the services don't have the same name, but if I log on another
workstation, using the same NFS driver but NIS as authentication it
works without a problem.

I also saw that my nfsmount service was not running, but yet I'm able to
access NFS drives, so what is the use of this service, since I guess NFS
drives are mounted by looking at /etc/fstab, or not?

Also, when kicker crashes, which is not happening a lot, I seem able to
log out normally...

Wimmy

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

SEO

Logging out not working - NFS might be the culprit