Bug#563592: gnome-settings-daemon - Dies on nfs mounts

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 04 janvier 2010 à 12:54 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:34:15PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:38 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit :
> > > gnome-settings-daemon access NFS mounts and blocks or even dies if they
> > > are unavailable for some time, as it may happen during broken network.
> > > The whole gnome desktop depends on the availability of this daemon, so
> > > this is not acceptable.
> > Blocking on NFS mounts is expected when they are unavailable.
> 
> No, it is not. The NFS mount is neither /usr, nor /home or /var. So a
> settings daemon have no need to access it in any way.

This must be the disk space check that tries to access them, and it
shouldn’t do that on NFS mounts indeed.

Does disabling the housekeeping plugin (in GConf,
disable /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/housekeeping/active) help?

If so, blacklisting all remote filesystems should be enough.

> > As for crashing, this is more surprising. Are they mounted with the
> > "soft" option?
> 
> Yes.

Having played a lot with NFS, I can only recommend to not do that. It
breaks so many things, I wouldn’t even try to inventory them.

Cheers,
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