On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:34:15PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:38 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit : > > gnome-settings-daemon access NFS mounts and blocks or even dies if they > > are unavailable for some time, as it may happen during broken network. > > The whole gnome desktop depends on the availability of this daemon, so > > this is not acceptable. > Blocking on NFS mounts is expected when they are unavailable.
No, it is not. The NFS mount is neither /usr, nor /home or /var. So a settings daemon have no need to access it in any way. > As for crashing, this is more surprising. Are they mounted with the > "soft" option? Yes. Bastian -- Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. -- Klingon Soldier, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org