Hi folks,
I'm running CentOS 6.6 on my workstation. There I have a user meikel,
and its home directory /home/meikel ist stored on a samba share on a
server which also runs CentOS 6.6.
In the very beginning I added the mount options for that home directory
into the /etc/fstab file which led to some problems, so I set up autofs
for mounting the home directory.
The autofs seems to work for /home/meikel, but sometimes when I login at
the GUI, I get error messages which look a little as if the home dir
isn't available, I then also don't get my desktop background image. The
two error dialogs which I get in that situation show the following messages:
"Could not update ICEauthority file /home/meikel/.ICEauthority"
and
"Es gibt ein Problem mit dem Konfigurationsserver.
(/usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 beendet mit Status 256)"
Sorry for the german, it's not clear to me how to get it in english.
It's something like "There's a problem with configuration server.
(/usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 terminated with exit-code 256)"
To do some analysis I did the following:
- Restart workstation, wait until login screen appears
- use CTRL-ALT-F2 to go to a text console
- log in as root
- mount --> it seems that /home/meikel isn't mounted (and this is what I
expect)
- ll /home/meikel/ --> it's fine, I can see alls the files and
subdirectories
- ll /home/meikel/Dokumente/ --> it's also fine
- df -h /home/meikel --> now the mount is there
- mount | grep meikel --> yes, the mount is there
- use CTRL-ALT-F3 to go to another text console
- log in as user meikel --> I get an error saying "No directory
/home/meikel!", but I'm logged in
- pwd --> it shows the root dir /
- id --> it shows uid=500(meikel) gid=500(meikel)
- ll -d /home/meikel --> drwx------ meikel:meikel
- echo ${HOME} --> shows /home/meikel
So the directory /home/meikel is definitely there. Can someone explain
the error message "No directory /home/meikel!" and give any hints about
possible problem causes? How can it say that the directory isn't here
but I can see all the data?
Regards,
Meikel