Ben,

Are you logging into multiple machines using the same userid 
simultaneously ?

If so, that's the problem.  That breaks soooo many things that local 
devices are the least of your problem.

Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Ben Green wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:55:38 +0100, Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I seriously doubt that LDAP is causing the problem.
>> It seems that lbuscd, running on the client, gets hung in an odd state,
>> and refuses to accept new connections after the first one.
>> What makes this so hard for us to figure out, is that it works perfectly
>> for us (Scott and me).  So, it's awfully hard to debug something that
>> doesn't appear broken.  But, there's been a number of people reporting
>> this as a problem.  It also seems that most people (maybe all) that are
>> having trouble aren't running Ubuntu or Debian, as we are.  So, I'll
>> probably have to build a Suse or FC box to do some testing.
>> Technically, that's not a problem. it's just there aren't enough hours
>> in the day to do all the things I need to do.
>>     
>
>
> The actual problem as stated does not fit with the problem as I am  
> investigating it this morning. The problem should be stated as "only the  
> last log in for one person has local device support."
>
> Here is the problem as I experience it:
>
> 1/ log in to machine one.
> 2/ USB Key works on machine one.
> 3/ log in to machine two.
> 4/ USB Key works in machine two.
> 5/ USB Key doesn't work in machine one.
>
> Can anyone else confirm that this is the problem they are experiencing, or  
> is it something different? Further more with a third log in on the same  
> account:
>
> 6/log in to machine three
> 7/USB Key works in machine three.
> 8/USB Key doesn't work in machine two.
> 9/USB Key doesn't work in machine one.
>
> It is like a flag is being passed around so that only one terminal for a  
> particular user has local device support. It is was noticeable that when  
> the third machine was logged in too, the floppy icon disappeared from the  
> desktop (of all three log ins (of course) and that the third machine  
> didn't have a floppy.
>
> Perhaps the reason you are not finding a problem Jim is that you are  
> testing the local device of the last log in which always works, not the  
> first log in, which always doesn't (on this set up anyhow).
>
> I think I was one of the first people to report this, and we use Debian  
> here, of the testing/unstable variety.
>
>   


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