Hi Anselm, hi list,
I found the reason (at least I hope it was this one):
There was an nfs directory in my /home, and this nfs was mounted to the
machine I used to log in from via "X -query <server>". When I tried to
log in from somewhere else via LTSP, this machine stayed switched off
and thus this directory was not there or empty or sleeping or whatever.
It took half an hour to get rid of this directory because the server
didn't want to let it go, but now that I succeeded in killing it at
last, everything seems to run smoothly again.
Thanks for your help and ideas!
Rolf
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister schrieb:
Am Freitag, den 17.03.2006, 10:56 +0100 schrieb Eilert:
Strange things happening ;-)
A new client doesn't want to let me read my own $home anymore. But it is
possible to jump into sub-dirs and read and write from there. Changing
rights didn't help.
There are two programs I could't start in the past using this client,
ksysguard and mc. What's more, it doesn't block me all the time.
SOMETIMES - not regularly - it runs smoothly. I never found out why.
Maybe you remember me asking this question half a year ago.
Now I found that not any of the programs I start as owner of this
directory will have access to my $home, only to sub-dirs of it. So, most
apps run smoothly as long as they will read and save their files in subdirs.
My first bet would be one of the following two options
- permissions. Did you check the "sticky" etc. bits?
- Invalid directory entries - or weird ones like a file named "?". That
could get some software intrepreting the directory list out of its
track.
Just in doubt, could you provide a listing of "ls -la $dir"?
Will you be able to "cd" into that directory as user and/or root? Are
there any syslog / dmesg messages when trying to access the $home with
one of the programs refusing to work?
The server has a Suse 9.1 on it, maybe you've heard anything?
<rant>Well, it's SuSE, you never know about their patches.</rant>
No facts that I know about, and I would rather not suspect SuSE being
the guilty party here. Although you could of course try accessing the
filesystem from a Knoppix CD: does that make a difference?
Regards,
Anselm
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