This one time, at band camp, Jaume Obrador said: > I need help: > > I just installed a debian woody network on a school with a nis and nfs > server, which contains /home directory, shared through NFS. > > After install "X window system" and "desktop environment" from tasksel > on 2 machines, I added just one user one the server and tried X from > both computers and it worked fast & fine. > > After that I installed some more goodies, like nautilus, evolution, some > Kde-themes, Gtk-engines, and so. When I completed the installation of 12 > computers, I added 10 users more to the nis server and did a "make" in > /var/yp, all perfect, but when I log in any computer with someone of > those new users, the system is VERY VERY SLOW and it brings lots of > segfaults (gtop is one of them) BUT surprisingly, if I log in with the > original user it still work fine & fast. > > What I did wrong? I just put the original debian woody packages and no > more. > > Please can you help me? I need that to make some linus lectures. > > Thanks a lot. > Jaume.
This sounds like a file locking problem. GNOME has been known to have problems with nfs moyunted /home directories in the past, but I am not sure if it has been resolved. Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but perhaps this can help point you in the direction. HTH, Steve -- A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work.
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