On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:27:06AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At work, I have a central NFS and NIS server. Normally on weekends I  
> turn off my workstation (HP Integrity IA64 running RHEL 5.1) when I  
> reboot it, and try to log in from the GUI (GNOME), it tells me it can't  
> find my home directory, 

Did you check the system logs to see if/why the first mount is
failing?  

Does the initial login take a long time, or does it log you in
quickly, but just without your home directory?

A couple of things come to mind.  NFS timeout is one.  DNS
slowness/failure is the other.  For the first, you might try messing
with the mount options (retry, hard vs. soft mounts, timeout values
etc.).  There could also be something wrong with autofs, I suppose...
Er, are you using amd or autofs?  It's been a very long time since
I've mucked with either, but I've a vague notion that autofs was
substantially better for some reason...  But I'm sure that's not
helpful at all. ;-)

> and sometimes comes up the wrong resolution.  

That's just weird. =8^)


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