[Thinlinc-technical] Problem when root is unable to access home directory

[Peter Wirdemo]

Hello!

Trying thinlinc-4.1.0 on ubuntu (13.04-x86_64).

On some of my machines root does not hae priviliges on the NFS share where
my home directory is on.
Unable to start thinlinc, error message: vsmagent: Home directory
/home/peter

*Client log:*
2013-08-09T00:33:08: Log file created

2013-08-09T00:33:08: ThinLinc client release 4.1.0 build 3996
2013-08-09T00:33:31: SSH command: /opt/thinlinc/lib/tlclient/ssh -N -o
GlobalKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o
PubkeyAuthentication=no -o CheckHostIP=no -o NumberOfPasswordPrompts=1
peter at nuc -p 22 thinlinc-login master
2013-08-09T00:33:31: SSH pid is 1400
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: CONFIRM HOST KEY: nuc 127.0.1.1 22
BBBE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbekQ7IyZxhmfn6pdlg=
2013-08-09T00:33:31: Host key previously known.
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: NEXT AUTHMETHOD: none
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: AUTH FAILURE
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: NEXT AUTHMETHOD: password
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: PASSWORD: peter nuc
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: AUTH SUCCESS
2013-08-09T00:33:31: ssh[E]: CONNECTED
2013-08-09T00:33:32: ssh[E]: THINLINC-LOGIN: HELLO 4.1.0
2013-08-09T00:33:32: ssh[E]: THINLINC-LOGIN: CONNECTED MASTER
2013-08-09T00:33:32: My hardware address is ECA86B4488C7
2013-08-09T00:33:32: Calling XML-RPC method 'get_capabilities'
2013-08-09T00:33:32: Calling XML-RPC method 'get_user_sessions'
2013-08-09T00:33:32: Calling XML-RPC method 'new_session'
2013-08-09T00:33:32: Process 1400 exited with code 0
2013-08-09T00:34:02: Log file ended

*Vsmagent.log*
Starting ThinLinc vsmagent
2013-08-09 00:32:07 INFO vsmagent: VSM Agent version 4.1.0 build 3996
started
2013-08-09 00:32:07 INFO vsmagent: My public hostname is 192.168.0.39
2013-08-09 00:33:32 *WARNING vsmagent: Home directory /home/peter does not
exist. Session for user peter can't start!*

*Vsmserver.log:*
Starting ThinLinc vsmserver
2013-08-09 00:32:15 INFO vsmserver: VSM Server version 4.1.0 build 3996
started
2013-08-09 00:32:15 INFO vsmserver.license: Updating license data from disk
to memory
2013-08-09 00:32:15 INFO vsmserver.license: License summary: 10 concurrent
users. Hard limit of 11 concurrent users.
2013-08-09 00:33:32 INFO vsmserver.session: User with uid 1001 (peter)
requested a new session
2013-08-09 00:33:32 WARNING vsmserver: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 reported failure
creating session for peter
2013-08-09 00:33:32 WARNING vsmserver.loadinfo: Agent 127.0.0.1 failed to
start session, Increasing penalty points by 5 to 5
2013-08-09 00:33:32 WARNING vsmserver: No working agents found trying to
start new session for peter
2013-08-09 00:34:12 INFO vsmserver.loadinfo: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 had 5
penalty points, decreasing to 4 after successful periodic load update
2013-08-09 00:34:52 INFO vsmserver.loadinfo: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 had 4
penalty points, decreasing to 3 after successful periodic load update
2013-08-09 00:35:32 INFO vsmserver.loadinfo: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 had 3
penalty points, decreasing to 2 after successful periodic load update
2013-08-09 00:36:12 INFO vsmserver.loadinfo: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 had 2
penalty points, decreasing to 1 after successful periodic load update
2013-08-09 00:36:52 INFO vsmserver.loadinfo: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 had 1
penalty points, decreasing to 0 after successful periodic load update

When exporting the home directory with rw for root, everything works fine.

2013-08-09 00:49:30 INFO vsmserver.session: User with uid 1001 (peter)
requested a new session
2013-08-09 00:49:33 INFO vsmserver: VSM Agent 127.0.0.1 successfully
created a new session for peter
2013-08-09 00:51:30 INFO vsmserver.session: Removing dead session for user
peter on agent 127.0.0.1
2013-08-09 00:49:33 INFO vsmagent.session: Verified connectivity to newly
started Xvnc for peter

/Peter
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