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Bug 328591 - Firefox and Thunderbird wont start with home on NFS
Summary: Firefox and Thunderbird wont start with home on NFS
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328475
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2010-07-16 11:32 UTC by Richard Connon
Modified: 2010-07-22 16:51 UTC (History)
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strace firefox (strace-firefox,267.35 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-16 11:37 UTC, Richard Connon 		Details
strace thunderbird (strace-thunderbird,24.51 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-16 11:37 UTC, Richard Connon 		Details
emerge --info (emerge-info,4.17 KB, text/plain)
2010-07-18 09:48 UTC, Richard Connon 		Details
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Description Richard Connon 2010-07-16 11:32:10 UTC 
When I mount home on NFS I can't start mozilla applications. This seems to be a problem with locking. Strace output of the affected programs will follow.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Richard Connon 2010-07-16 11:37:09 UTC 
Created attachment 239047 [details]
strace firefox
Comment 2 Richard Connon 2010-07-16 11:37:29 UTC 
Created attachment 239049 [details]
strace thunderbird
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-07-17 12:56:56 UTC 
ls -l .mozilla .thunderbird
Comment 4 Richard Connon 2010-07-17 22:09:40 UTC 
I'm not sure why the .thunderbird ones are so permissive but here you go:

$ ls -l .thunderbird .mozilla
.mozilla:
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 4 conan conan 4 Jul 14 22:12 extensions
drwxrwxrwx 3 conan conan 4 Jul 14 21:44 firefox

.thunderbird:
total 5
-rwxr--r-- 1 conan conan 94 Mar 20 15:51 profiles.ini
drwx------ 8 conan conan 46 Jul 17 16:11 vj8793h2.default
Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-07-18 01:48:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm not sure why the .thunderbird ones are so permissive but here you go:
> 
> $ ls -l .thunderbird .mozilla
> .mozilla:
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwx 4 conan conan 4 Jul 14 22:12 extensions
> drwxrwxrwx 3 conan conan 4 Jul 14 21:44 firefox
> 
> .thunderbird:
> total 5
> -rwxr--r-- 1 conan conan 94 Mar 20 15:51 profiles.ini
> drwx------ 8 conan conan 46 Jul 17 16:11 vj8793h2.default
> 

Your permissions should allow for the lock, your firefox should be just as permissive yet they are not. At your emerge --info and options that you have passed for mount of the nfs filesystem please.
Comment 6 Richard Connon 2010-07-18 09:48:13 UTC 
Created attachment 239231 [details]
emerge --info

NFS is mounted as:
172.16.0.1:/home/users/conan on /home/users/conan type nfs (rw,vers=3,addr=172.16.0.1)
Comment 7 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-07-18 14:48:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 328475 ***
Comment 8 Richard Connon 2010-07-18 20:24:15 UTC 
My behaviour is reproducible on 2.6.33? Is this definitely a dupe?
Comment 9 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2010-07-18 23:48:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> My behaviour is reproducible on 2.6.33? Is this definitely a dupe?
> 

Yes it is, we have a few upstream devs who have tested with .32 and are unable to duplicate the problem. They also tested with .33 and .34 at my request and found they where also unable to lock the profile for startup, which results in failure.
Comment 10 Richard Connon 2010-07-20 10:53:49 UTC 
Interesting. My problem still occurs using 2.6.32
Should I try even older versions?
Comment 11 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2010-07-22 16:51:30 UTC 
It could be the same bug, only less reliably triggered on older kernels. If the issue persists after bug 328475 is fixed, reopen.