[Bug 1187724] Re: thunderbird crashes at startup

2013-12-22 Thread Tim Watts
Finally - I have the solution (at least for me!). We are using LDAP for user accounts via pam_ldap. I did not have nscd (name service cache daemon) installed. Although it makes no difference to anything else, I did try installing it and bingo! thunderbird works again. This is still clearly a

[Bug 1187724] Re: thunderbird crashes at startup

2013-06-10 Thread Tim Watts
Today I tried something new: Log out and back into X. Kill all processes that I owned except X server and terminal (so killed dbus, gconfd and all manner of things). mv'ed my *entire* home directory into a subdir called TEMP/ taking care to include all . (DOT) subdirs Started thunderbird

[Bug 1187724] [NEW] thunderbird crashes at startup

2013-06-05 Thread Tim Watts
Public bug reported: This is repeatible. thunderbird --safe-mode also crashes Removing ~.thunderbird/ does not fix the problem. Running thunderbird as another user (different home directory, user never ran thunderbird before) DOES fix the problem and thunderbird starts normally. Clearly there

[Bug 687418] [NEW] NFSv4 client losing authentication despite kinit

2010-12-08 Thread Tim Watts
Public bug reported: Hi, I have an NFSv4 client set up on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS x86. The NFSv4 server is running Centos 5.5 and we use MIT kerberos and LDAP for users/groups. All works fine, except after a while my client loses its authentication - symptom: home directory mount drops to nobody.

[Bug 687418] Re: NFSv4 client losing authentication despite kinit

2010-12-08 Thread Tim Watts
I should add the mount options are: -fstype=nfs4,proto=tcp,sec=krb5i,port=2049,hard,nosuid,nodev,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/687418 Title: NFSv4

[Bug 687418] Re: NFSv4 client losing authentication despite kinit

2010-12-08 Thread Tim Watts
With respect Fabio - are you sure this is an nfs4-acl-tools related issue? We're not using ACLs on the filesystem in question. It seems to simply lose the mount authentication/authorisation as far as I can see - which suggests rpc.gssd or a kernel problem surely??? Cheers Tim -- You received