From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 12:17:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0325B16A403 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew.king@monnsta.net) Received: from never.monnsta.net (84-45-223-57.no-dns-yet.enta.net [84.45.223.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E9243D70 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:17:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew.king@monnsta.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by never.monnsta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B281447D6F for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from never.monnsta.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (never.monnsta.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 26) with LMTP id 17617-02 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:05 +0100 (BST) Received: by never.monnsta.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id AFC241447D71; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from knight.monnsta.net (knight.monnsta.net [10.7.8.3]) by never.monnsta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF9B1447D6F for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:05 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matthew King Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:17:05 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <20060920121705.6BF9B1447D6F@never.monnsta.net> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on never.monnsta.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at monnsta.net Subject: Using Xorg with NFS /home X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:17:09 -0000 I am working on using FreeBSD while I rebuild my system after recently buying an amd64 CPU. I hope that I can eventually swap out my (i386) Debian installation with FreeBSD. My /home is mounted from a Debian NFS server. (This is the network at home so security is not paramount). User and Group IDs are managed with libpam_ldap and libnss_ldap by an LDAP server (incidentally the same Debian machine).[1] This is all fine and dandy (except that /bin/bash didn't exist but a symlink sorted that out) until I start X. As root, it is fine. startx runs and gives me an (arguably beautiful) twm desktop. However running it as a user is not so much fun. Only the first line is printed and then the entire /home filesystem hangs. I don't remember now precisely what the message is but I believe it comes before the X binary is called. It is not an error message. Until this is resolved I am stuck in my old Debian desktop but I could reboot and find out easily enough what the line is. I don't believe the kernel says anything relevant. I am running 6.1-RELEASE with few extra packages installed (mainly like bash, nfs, X). Matthew [1] Out of curiosity, my existing Debian machines have a getent utility to examine the various databases controlled by nsswitch.conf. (Where) Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD? -- I must take issue with the term "a mere child," for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. -- Fran Lebowitz