Fedora 32: can't cd to home directory on login

[Braden McDaniel]

Some recent update to Fedora 32 has caused this to start happen:

Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition)
   Kernel 5.7.12-200.fc32.x86_64 on an x86_64 (tty3)
   mull login: braden
   Password:
   Last login: Sun Aug  9 21:08:51 on tty2
    -- braden: /home/braden: change directory failed:
   Logging in with home = "/".
   [braden@mull /]$ cd
   [braden@mull ~]$ pwd
   /home/braden
   [braden@mull ~]$

What's happening here?

Why is the login process itself failing to change to the home
directory, yet it's accessible immediately afterward?

Home directories are NFS mounted on this machine via autofs.

$ cat /etc/auto.master.d/home.autofs
   /home	/etc/auto.home
   $ cat /etc/auto.home
   *		-fstype=nfs4	hinge:/endoframe-store/home/&

[Gordon Messmer]

On 8/9/20 8:02 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition)
> Kernel 5.7.12-200.fc32.x86_64 on an x86_64 (tty3)
> mull login: braden
> Password:
> Last login: Sun Aug  9 21:08:51 on tty2
>  -- braden: /home/braden: change directory failed:
> Logging in with home = "/".

Try: setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 20:49 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 8/9/20 8:02 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition)
> > Kernel 5.7.12-200.fc32.x86_64 on an x86_64 (tty3)
> > mull login: braden
> > Password:
> > Last login: Sun Aug  9 21:08:51 on tty2
> >  -- braden: /home/braden: change directory failed:
> > Logging in with home = "/".
>
> Try: setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

After doing that and rebooting, NFS shares couldn't be mounted at all.

More likely that had to do with the rebooting than the
use_nfs_home_dirs setting.

What *did* get things back to working order was to update the Fedora 32
server where the NFS shares live.  It was probably two or three weeks
behind.  Apparently some incompatible change was introduced in that
time.

[Roger Heflin]

Generally I try to use nfsvers=3 since I have had version 4 act up
like this a couple of times when everything is not completely in sync.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 8:12 AM Braden McDaniel  wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 20:49 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On 8/9/20 8:02 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > > Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition)
> > > Kernel 5.7.12-200.fc32.x86_64 on an x86_64 (tty3)
> > > mull login: braden
> > > Password:
> > > Last login: Sun Aug  9 21:08:51 on tty2
> > >  -- braden: /home/braden: change directory failed:
> > > Logging in with home = "/".
> >
> > Try: setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1
>
> After doing that and rebooting, NFS shares couldn't be mounted at all.
>
> More likely that had to do with the rebooting than the
> use_nfs_home_dirs setting.
>
> What *did* get things back to working order was to update the Fedora 32
> server where the NFS shares live.  It was probably two or three weeks
> behind.  Apparently some incompatible change was introduced in that
> time.
>
> --
> Braden McDaniel 
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