Public bug reported:
We have a small Ubuntu 10.04 LTS deployment (about 10 seats), with some
home directories mounted on NFS. Even with the face chooser disabled,
gdm still scans every home directory before allowing someone to log in.
If any of the home directories is stalls (because its NFS server is
down), then no one can log in, including the users whose home
directories are available. Needless to say, this is a really bad failure
mode.
The symptoms are really confusing too. Either the computer stays stuck
at the plymouth splash screen (because it's waiting for gdm to come up),
or when clicking the "log in" button (to get the username text field...
this is the lucid gdm), the username text field doesn't come up but the
"log In" and "cancel" buttons do.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
gdm scans all home directories, makes it impossible to log in if one
of them is e.g. on NFS and stalled
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