I've been battling with an extremely annoying issue that I believe is
related to autofs. My home directory is mounted over NFS using autofs
4.1.4 (as supplied with Kubuntu Hardy). I've used this setup for years
over perhaps a dozen different distributions without any particular
problems.
Since moving to the Hardy distro, the problem is this: If I leave the
system idle at the KDE desktop for more than a few minutes, any and all
attempts at opening new windows fail with an error that they cannot obtain
X authorization. If I simply do an 'ls' in my home directory and try
again, it works fine. I believe this is being caused by the automounter
timing out, but I do not find any log messages from the automounter under
any circumstances, so it's difficult to prove. If I do an strace on the X
application, it appears to be unable to read ~/.Xauthority (which is there
and can be read after triggering a remount).
Is it possible that autofs behavior changed in a manner such that a stat
of ~/.Xauthority is no longer sufficient to trigger the mounter?
Any suggestions (or even WAGs) appreciated. I'd love to swat this
annoyance.
Steve
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