Hi,
We are also using Ubuntu 10.04 paired with AFS home dirs and I am facing a
hard problem with Gnome. Opening and closing sessions work flawlessly, but
when users lock their workstation at night, they can't unlock it the
following morning. Of course their TGT and AFS tokens expire overnight,
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Thomas Calderon wrote:
We encountered the same issue when rolling out an updated desktop
environment using Gnome.
gnome-screensaver, for various security reasons, takes a multiprocess
approach. The main locking process detects mouse/keyboard activity, and
then runs another
On 12/22/2010 2:35 PM, Thomas M. Payerle wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Thomas Calderon wrote:
We encountered the same issue when rolling out an updated desktop
environment using Gnome.
gnome-screensaver, for various security reasons, takes a multiprocess
approach. The main locking process
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On 12/10/10 09:58 , Stephen Joyce wrote:
I gave up gnome back around RedHat 8.x days due to issues with AFS homedirs.
Has gnome with afs homedirs improved any since then?
Nope. I've switched to KDE almost exclusively, although I do poke at GNOME
We use a mixed environment of Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OSX machines in our labs and
classrooms. After our upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, are users are noticing that the
first time they log in, GDM accepts their password, starts a session, and then
terminates. They can usually log in the second time,
Hi,
Im not in a school here, but a small company with 66 Ubuntu Lucid
workstations and we also noticed that problem. I actually seems to be a
common problem with the GNOME desktop environment. This is especially
known for LTSP (google for ltsp orpahned processes).
But I'd advise you to
I gave up gnome back around RedHat 8.x days due to issues with AFS
homedirs. Has gnome with afs homedirs improved any since then?
Anyway, we don't see the login problems you describe on Kubuntu 10.4. KDE
does have its own issues with lingering processes, but nothing annoying
enough to move to
On 12/10/2010 6:54 AM, Thomas Briggs wrote:
We use a mixed environment of Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OSX machines in our labs and
classrooms. After our upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, are users are noticing that the
first time they log in, GDM accepts their password, starts a session, and then
On Dec 10, 2010, at 15:58 , Stephen Joyce wrote:
I gave up gnome back around RedHat 8.x days due to issues with AFS homedirs.
Has gnome with afs homedirs improved any since then?
Yes, it works quite well on EL3/4/5/6. We still export GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1, but
I think it hasn't been required
