NFS Home Directory & Mozilla-based Browsers

[ThinkOpen]

Here's a tough one... I NFS mount my home directory off of a NAS device and everything works great, except that both Firefox and Epiphany take about 5 minutes to launch. If I move my home dir back to the local disk they work fine. Any idea about where I could start digging for information? Has anyone seen these applications behave in this manner? Any help would be appreciated.

[ThinkOpen]

BTW, if I launch epiphany/firefox from the command line, the program takes about 2-3 minutes to launch and then I recieve the following output...

** (epiphany:3598): WARNING **: An error occured while calling remote method: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I only have seen performance problems with these two applications since changing my home dir to be an NFS mount. Anybody have a clue as to what the problem might be or where I could dig for more information?

[ThinkOpen]

Hmm, pretty quiet here... isn't there anybody that's seen a similar problem?

[such007]

How are you mounting? Silly question but you do have portmap enabled? Can you give us the output of a df? I'm not an NFS expert but a few of these things come to mind.

[ThinkOpen]

I'm mounting it via an entry in fstab. Yes, I have portmap enabled and it mounts/unmounts properly. I'll send you the entry from my /etc/fstab file and df in a few hours.

[gigot]

I've been having this problem at work, it turns out I had to ad the nolock option to my fstab because our NFS server is too old and don't support it.

Hope it helps, I had a hard time to figure this out.

[ThinkOpen]

Where do you add the nolock option in the auto.mnt file?

[gigot]

No i added it to /etc/fstab in the mount options

my.nfs.server:/home /home nfs defaults,nolock

I got the tips from here : http://www.nacs.uci.edu/dcslib/linux...nt-config.html