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Bug 2177871

Summary: Storing user settings over NFS on RHEL 9 is not documented
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Carlos Santos <casantos>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Marek Suchánek <msuchane>
Documentation sub component: default QA Contact:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED Docs Contact: Michal Stubna <mstubna>
Severity: medium    
Priority: high CC: bcodding, mstubna, msuchane, rhel-docs, sbarcomb, tcapek, tpopela
Version: 9.1Keywords: Documentation, MigratedToJIRA
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 9.3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Carlos Santos 2023-03-13 18:12:43 UTC
Description of problem:

The RHEL 9 desktop documentation does not cover storing user settings over NFS,
as its done for RHEL 7 and 8, e.g.

   https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/using_the_desktop_environment_in_rhel_8/index#storing-user-settings-over-nfs_configuring-gnome-at-low-level

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL 9.1

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce: not applicable

Actual results: not applicable

Expected results: not applicable

Additional info:

The stable version of the GNOME System Administration Guide still mentions the
settings for home on NFS:

   https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/3.38/dconf-nfs-home.html.en

Apparently there is no System Administration Guide for GNOME 40.

Comment 1 Tomas Popela 2023-03-14 07:12:12 UTC
@msuchane can you please move this to the right component that you're using for documentation bugs/RFEs?

Comment 2 Marek Suchánek 2023-03-14 13:05:53 UTC
Thanks for letting me know. I'm setting all the metadata to documentation and adding this ticket to our 9.3 plan.

Comment 9 Benjamin Coddington 2023-07-27 15:57:38 UTC
Hey, NFS kernel engineer here -- we're not exactly sure why that doc section originally exists.  We're not dconf experts.  Is there a way to find the original BZ that created that section?

Comment 10 Marek Suchánek 2023-07-27 17:44:10 UTC
(In reply to Benjamin Coddington from comment #9)
> Hey, NFS kernel engineer here -- we're not exactly sure why that doc section
> originally exists.  We're not dconf experts.  Is there a way to find the
> original BZ that created that section?

I've been able to trace the documentation back to its origins. It was written in 2013 for the upstream GNOME administration guide, then copied into RHEL 7, and carried over to RHEL 8.

As far as I can tell, these tickets show the earliest reasoning behind the documentation. Luckily, they were listed in the upstream documentation sources:

- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694567
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595579#c40
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670493#c8

Hope that helps.

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