[OpenAFS-devel] startkde bug in RHEL 3WS

[Brett L. Trotter]

I tried posting this several days ago and was either moderated or it didn't 
make it so I thought I'd try one more time.

We're moving towards RHEL here at ISU and several of us noticed that people 
with AFS home directories can not log into KDE.

The problem lies in the RedHat-ized startkde which checks the output of df to 
determine if there is enough space available. For different OS's 
(RHEL/FC1/RH9/etc) with different kernel modules (SMP versus single), df will 
return different values on /afs. If your machine is one of the ones that 
returns 1, you will be denied login. Even if your machine returns the 900000 
number or the petabyte number, the disk space check is worthless.

I submitted a bug and patch to RHEL and it will be included in the next 
release.

This may be worth noting to anyone trying to use AFS in a RedHat Enterprise 
Linux environment.

Here is the official bugzilla page:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128653

Cheers

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Brett Trotter
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Iowa State University
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