[Bug 1878742] [NEW] KDE - can't login with NFS $HOME

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If a users home directory is an NFS server, KDE fails to start with the
error "No write access to $HOME directory". The fact that the error is
logged to .xsession-errors in the users home directory is a bit ironic.

This is reproducible on 20.04 and 18.04

kelleher at numbersix:~$ 
kelleher at numbersix:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:	20.04
kelleher at numbersix:~$ 
kelleher at numbersix:~$ apt-cache policy kubuntu-desktop
kubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.398
  Candidate: 1.398
  Version table:
 *** 1.398 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kelleher at numbersix:~$ 
kelleher at numbersix:~$ ls -la .xsession-errors 
-rw------- 1 kelleher kelleher 2816 May 14 22:33 .xsession-errors
kelleher at numbersix:~$ 
kelleher at numbersix:~$ cat .xsession-errors 
Xsession: X session started for kelleher at Thu 14 May 2020 10:32:26 PM EDT
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/2000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/vol/home/kelleher/.Xauthority
localuser:kelleher being added to access control list
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-plasma:/etc/xdg:/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session2
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/vol/home/kelleher
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=kelleher
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/2000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/vol/home/kelleher/.Xauthority
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/vol/home/kelleher
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting IM_CONFIG_PHASE=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=kelleher
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN=/run/user/2000/kwallet5.socket
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHLVL=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2000
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/plasma:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/vol/home/kelleher/.local/bin:/vol/home/kelleher/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/2000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting _=/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment
kdeinit5: Aborting. No write access to $HOME directory (/vol/home/kelleher).
The following installation problem was detected
while trying to start KDE:

    No write access to $HOME directory (/vol/home/kelleher).

KDE is unable to start.
kelleher at numbersix:~$

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: kde nfs
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KDE - can't login with NFS $HOME
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878742
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