Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147902
.ICEauthority file's location can not be set; gnome quits on smb-shares
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12 Description of problem: Gnome can't be used on home directories mounted via smb-shares as there's no way to set the location of the .ICEauthority file. When gnome-session starts up it tries to lock the file in the user's home directory. That operation fails on smb and (as it seems after searching the web and forums) also on NFS shares. Gnome-session immediately quits afterwards which stops the login sequence and pushes me back to the login prompt. The error message on the console is: ** (gnome-session:1289): WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file: /home/Administrator/.ICEauthority There seems to be no way to specify an alternate location for the .ICEauthority file like for .Xauthority which can be set in gnome.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount a smb share as the home directory 2. Start a gnome session Actual Results: gnome-session quits Additional info: I've already filed that one on bugs.gnome.org but it doesn't seem like they're looking at bugs filed as I could see other bugreports on iceauth marked as NEW from 2002!
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