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On 05/31/2009 11:57 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:27:06AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > =20 >> At work, I have a central NFS and NIS server. Normally on weekends I = >> turn off my workstation (HP Integrity IA64 running RHEL 5.1) when I =20 >> reboot it, and try to log in from the GUI (GNOME), it tells me it can'= t =20 >> find my home directory,=20 >> =20 > > Did you check the system logs to see if/why the first mount is > failing? =20 > > Does the initial login take a long time, or does it log you in > quickly, but just without your home directory? > > A couple of things come to mind. NFS timeout is one. DNS > slowness/failure is the other. For the first, you might try messing > with the mount options (retry, hard vs. soft mounts, timeout values > etc.). There could also be something wrong with autofs, I suppose... > Er, are you using amd or autofs? It's been a very long time since > I've mucked with either, but I've a vague notion that autofs was > substantially better for some reason... But I'm sure that's not > helpful at all. ;-) > > =20 >> and sometimes comes up the wrong resolution. =20 >> =20 > > That's just weird. =3D8^) > =20 I've been busy this week so I have not had time to research this more.=20 The login is very fast even though I am using NIS. When I try to log in=20 initially via ssh the symptom is that it fails to authenticate using my=20 public key, but then it gives me the password prompt and the home=20 directory comes up. I'm using autofs. It's not a big deal because it is=20 only my personal workstation. I certainly could place /home in fstab,=20 but I prefer that home directories are not always mounted, but on this=20 system it does not matter. I only shut the system down on weekends=20 otherwise it will warm up the entire office. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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