[linux-cifs-client] CIFS home mount won't allow KDE to run

[Wilhelm Meier]

Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 15:06 schrieb Paul Waldo:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Linux client that has my home dir mounted from a fileserver.  I
> mount with this line in /etc/fstab:
> //alexandria/paul       /home/pwaldo    cifs
> credentials=/etc/thecus_credentials.txt    0       0
>
> When I try to start KDE, it hangs very quickly into the process, with no
> information in .xsession-errors.  I moved ~/.kde out of the way to start
> fresh, and I get this:
> WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile
> /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock

this is a known problem. Be sure to use the serverino option for mount.cifs / 
mounting.

>
> I'm not sure why it's complaining, because shell file operations seem to
> work OK:
> $ ls -l /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock
> -rwxrwxrw- 1 pwaldo smbusers 26 2007-06-15 08:19
> /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock
>
> $ rm /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock
> rm: remove regular file
> `/home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock'? y
>
> $ ls -l /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock
> ls: /home/pwaldo/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc.lock: No such file or
> directory
>
>
> The reason I think this is a CIFS problem is that I used to mount my
> home via NFS without issue, and started encountering this problem when I
> switched to CIFS.  Server and client info below.  Thanks for any help
> you can provide!
>
> Paul
>
> Server:
> ---------
> Thecus N5200 NAS appliance
> Kernel 2.6.13
> Samba 3.0.22 (as reported by "smbclient -L alexandria")
>
> Client:
> ---------
> 2 * Xeon (dual core)
> Kubuntu Fiesty AMD64
> Kernel 2.6.19-4-generic-amd64
>
> $ dpkg -l "samba*"
> [...]
> pn  samba                 <none>                (no description available)
> un  samba-client          <none>                (no description available)
> ii  samba-common          3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2     Samba common files used
> by both the server and the client
> pn  samba-dbg             <none>                (no description available)
> pn  samba-doc             <none>                (no description available)
> pn  samba-doc-pdf         <none>                (no description available)
> un  samba-tng-common      <none>                (no description available)
>
>
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-- 
Wilhelm