Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-02-01 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 03:10:15PM -0500, Michael Weiner wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > > no other idea for the moment. > > Tru - > > I think i *MAY* have this figured out. When you do 'ibrix_fs -i' is > compatibility set to no? If so, are you a 64-bit client only s

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Weiner
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > no other idea for the moment. Tru - I think i *MAY* have this figured out. When you do 'ibrix_fs -i' is compatibility set to no? If so, are you a 64-bit client only shop? I am wondering if our having the 64-bit mode set is causing the problems.

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Weiner
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > try mounting to /home/username instead of /bme/home/username > (and fixing /etc/passwd) > > no other idea for the moment. Tru - Thank you for the suggestion, i did this, and it still failed with that .dmrc error, even AFTER i changed the RelaxP

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:17:38AM -0500, Michael Weiner wrote: ... > > On workstation, mount shows: > > lri-brix:/ibrix/testing on /bme/home type nfs (rw,addr=10.66.200.11) ... try mounting to /home/username instead of /bme/home/username (and fixing /etc/passwd) no other idea for the moment.

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Weiner
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: > > [root@xxx ~]# ibrix_version -l >  Fusion Manager version: 6.0.326 >  === >  Segment Servers >  === >  HOST_NAME  FILE_SYSTEM         IAD/IAS  IAD/FS   OS         KERNEL_VERSION   > ARCH >  -  

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:48:14PM -0500, Michael Weiner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > > no issue here on CentOS-6.2 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64 > > selinux enforced (but I have setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs=1) > > > > ibrix:/ibfs1/tru mounted as /home/ibrix (newly cr

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Weiner
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Gnome doesn't like multiple concurrent logins, period.  For example, > via the console and freenx as the same user.  I've sometimes wondered > if the authors ever saw a multi-headed unix system or used X remotely. >  But that doesn't really ha

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Thomas Burns wrote: > Gnome just does not like NFS > home dirs. (My experience has been, if the same user is logged in to > two machines, kablooey!) Gnome doesn't like multiple concurrent logins, period. For example, via the console and freenx as the same user.

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Weiner
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Thomas Burns wrote: > If it was me, I'd try creating a new home directory for that user on a > disk local to the machine where you're trying to log in. Presumably > the user could then log in. Then I'd check that the user could access > the NFS share normally just

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Burns
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Michael Weiner wrote: > 5) i tried mounting manually, creating a $home directory for a new > user, giving that user a password and i can ssh in but not Gnome or > KDE If it was me, I'd try creating a new home directory for that user on a disk local to the machine

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Weiner
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > no issue here on CentOS-6.2 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64 > selinux enforced (but I have setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs=1) > > ibrix:/ibfs1/tru mounted as /home/ibrix (newly created ibrix user) Tru - Thank you for your response. When you created th

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Weiner
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Burns wrote: > Any relevant messages in /var/log/messages of the server? Is automount > able to mount and it is "just" a permissions problem? > > I had a vaguely similar problem recently, trying to get OSX to access > NIS/NFS, it needs different mount optio

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:39:35AM -0500, Weiner, Michael wrote: > On Behalf Of Lucian > > > Check /var/log/audit/audit.log, maybe it's a Selinux related problem. > > Were you using Selinux on those Centos/Fedora installations > > previously? Maybe the contexts haven't been migrated over (properly

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Thomas Burns
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > Has anyone run into a similar problem? Different versions of NFS and automount over time and over platforms requiring slightly different config tweaks - this problem is always kicking my butt. Any relevant messages in /var/log/messages o

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Weiner, Michael
On Behalf Of Lucian > Check /var/log/audit/audit.log, maybe it's a Selinux related problem. > Were you using Selinux on those Centos/Fedora installations > previously? Maybe the contexts haven't been migrated over (properly). Thank you for your reply. I normally disable selinux, but its worth che

Re: [CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Lucian
On 26 January 2012 15:46, Weiner, Michael wrote: > I am at my wits end, googling, trying various things, and nothing seems > to really solve my problem Hello, Check /var/log/audit/audit.log, maybe it's a Selinux related problem. Were you using Selinux on those Centos/Fedora installations previou

[CentOS] GUI login issues over NFS

2012-01-26 Thread Weiner, Michael
I am at my wits end, googling, trying various things, and nothing seems to really solve my problem, so I thought I would break down and write to the community to see if anyone else has run into the issue and actually solved it. My environment of interest contains a mix of various Fedora and CentOS