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

[Bastian Blank]

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.

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

Yes.

Bastian

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