Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. In theory, the directory shouldn't be unmounted. Try typing just 'mount' to see what's mounted when the problem occurs. What's the kernel version? Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
