KDE with NFS

[uteck]

Here is an odd situation I have at work. We are trying to migrate the workstations at the backup facility to the new NIS/NFS server in the data center at HQ, off of the old server that is located at the backup facility. The problem is that KDE will not start when connected to the new NIS/NFS server. Command line login works fine and auto mounting directory's works, but KDE will not start for anyone with /home on NFS. Gnome works, but we use a custom script to make menus for the users based on what group they are in, and that does not work in Gnome so there are no menus.

All we can think of is that there is some network latency involved, but we can't demonstrate that. While KDE is trying to start we get this message "kernel: lockd: server <ip removed> not responding, still trying"
That IP is the NFS server, but you can access the files from the command line, so why is that error getting reported?

Any ideas?

[uteck]

To answer my own post, one of the other guys at work figured out how to disable lockd and that seems to do the trick. Of course this is not a good solution since lockd is needed to prevent multiple users from writing to the same file on NFS, but since it is only for /home the chances of this happening are small.