Automount and /home

[Jerry Natowitz]

I remember having a similar problem on Solaris.  The solution was to add 
"retry=3" to the auto_home line(s) in /etc/auto_master on the server.  I 
don't exactly what conditions required this, only that it worked.

	Jerry Natowitz
	j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At work, I have a central NFS and NIS server. Normally on weekends I 
> turn off my workstation (HP Integrity IA64 running RHEL 5.1) when I 
> reboot it, and try to log in from the GUI (GNOME), it tells me it can't 
> find my home directory, and sometimes comes up the wrong resolution. 
> However if I restart the GUI by logging off or ctrl-alt-backspace, 
> everything is fine. Additionally, if I log in from my Windows system 
> using putty before I log in from the console, everything is fine. 
> Additionally, if I ssh to any of our 9 systems, the home directories 
> generally come up. The only case where it fails is the first login from 
> the GDM login screen initially after boot. It is a minor pain. Note that 
> my network is run through 2 GB Netgear switches, 1 switch connects the 
> firewall, and the office connectors, and the other one is located in the 
> rack where the 8 servers are located. It's possible that the propagation 
> delay could be part of the issue, but that would not explain why ssh via 
> putty works. One other bit of info is that when logging in via GDM, I 
> must enter my password which is authenticated by NIS, where when I log 
> in via ssh (or putty) I use RSA keys in my home directory. In any case, 
> this just seems to be a transient timing issue where there might be a 
> slight delay in the automounting. Once I log in to the initial session 
> (no home directory), I can see that my home directory has been mounted.
> 
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