Fun with Gnome/KDE and NIS/NFS

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 3/24/2011 7:10 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have an isolated LAN consisting of a Fedora NIS/NFS server and a
> handful of CentOS and Fedora workstations.    It has been a while
> since I last added a node, but I recently needed to.   NIS and NFS
> work fine - I can ssh into the new node with no problem.
>
> But, for console login, whether I use KDE or GNOME, I get the infamous
> login, then immediate log out with the warning that I've been logged
> in for less than 10 seconds...
>
> I've had this problem before, but it was a while back and I cannot
> recall how I fixed it.
>
> Disk space is plentiful, and my account is fine because I can ssh into
> the box - console login is the problem.
>
> I have no problem with console with any other node on this network to
> my account - just this new box.
>
> /tmp has 1777 permissions.
>
> How did I fix this the last time...???

If the nfslockd on the server is dead (or it's not started on the 
client), Gnome will be very unhappy (I'm guessing KDE would be too).  It 
only affects file locking, so logging in to a shell via ssh wouldn't be 
affected.

HTH,
Matt