kdm with problems NFS

[Patrick Healy]

Hello,

I have installed kubuntu dapper on my machine at work and things work
fine as a standalone machine.  However, I NFS mount my home directory
form a central server and as soon as I mount the directory and attempt
to log in, kdm hangs with a blue screen.

I have changed my UID and GID to match what the server wants and I have
recursively chown'd my home directory to be in keeping with it, but it
hasn't helped.  I also temporarily renamed my ~/.kde subdirectory, but
eventhough a new one got created, kdm still only went as far as the
blank blue screen.

If it's worth anything, here's my .xsessions-errors file.  I'm not able
to tell which of the messages are due to me killing kdm with
ctrl-alt-del and which are failures prior to that.
=========================
Xsession: X session started for healyp at Fri Aug 11 16:48:14 IST 2006
xrdb:  "xbiff*foreground" on line 54 overrides entry on line 45
xrdb:  "xbiff*background" on line 55 overrides entry on line 46
xrdb:  "xbiff*file" on line 56 overrides entry on line 47
startkde: Starting up...
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  145
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode:  145
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
DCOP aborting while waiting for answer from 'kded'
kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit: Exit.
kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
=========================

Also, some of the messages in syslog around this time were as shown
below.  The second kdm_greet[5044] error (memory corrupted) worries me,
but I don't know what could cause it...

Sincere thanks for any help that people can provide.

Paddy Healy

Aug 11 16:46:24 localhost kernel: [4294915.955000] lockd: failed to moni
tor 10.220.1.154
Aug 11 16:47:20 localhost kdm[4745]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
Aug 11 16:47:23 localhost kdm_greet[5044]: Can't open default user face
Aug 11 16:47:40 localhost kernel: [4294992.221000] portmap: server local
host not responding, timed out
Aug 11 16:47:40 localhost kernel: [4294992.221000] lockd: cannot monitor
 10.220.1.154
Aug 11 16:47:40 localhost kernel: [4294992.221000] lockd: failed to moni
tor 10.220.1.154
Aug 11 16:48:14 localhost kdm_greet[5044]: Internal error: memory corrup
tion detected
Aug 11 16:48:15 localhost kernel: [4295027.244000] portmap: server local
host not responding, timed out
Aug 11 16:48:15 localhost kernel: [4295027.244000] lockd: cannot monitor
 10.220.1.154

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