Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
In a Polish High School I work for, we use Ubuntu on most of our
computers. Since Ubuntu 6.06 we use NIS/NFS configuration very similar
to this described in How To articles on Ubuntu Community Wiki. My tests
with Ubuntu 8.04 using this configuration reviled a new problem that
wasn't there in Ubuntu 7.10 or any other previous version.
It only occurs when the /home folder is mounted form our central server
using NFS (after mounting a local /home folder everything works fine). I
tested this on three different computers, using both existing and new
user accounts.
Those are the symptoms:
1. It takes a ridiculously long time for the gnome-appearance-properties
(System/Preferences/Appearance) window to show up. The one time I used a
stop watch to count it took 2 minutes and 10 seconds (compared to the
usual 1 second).
2. When the window finally appears it's unresponsive and the only thing
you can do with it is to kill it
3. For some reason during this time (when waiting for the Appearance
window to appear) you can't invoke the log out dialog (the one that
normally appears when user click the red button in the top right corner
of the screen). It will finally appear, responsive, but only after the
unresponsive Appearance window did. Other windows and programs I tested
doesn't share this problem. Log out dialog seems to work normally, as
long as one don't try to open the gnome-appearance-properties window.
** Affects: nfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: nfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gnome Appearance Properties doesn't work when /home folder mounted using NFS;
affects the log out dialog
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224820
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