home directory was not found in the usual place

Hello,

I get the following error “home directory was not found in the usual place or cannot be accessed” the first time a user logs into the system. I set the LDAPv3 plug-in to map NFSHomeDirectory to an attribute homeDirectory in the campus LDAP that says “/usr/homes/{username}”.

For testing purposes I was going to use the local disk in the machine before I went and mounted /usr/homes off of the NFS Server. I created /usr/homes and everything works fine – the user’s home directory is created on first login, home dir permissions seem ok, users can save data. And on subsequent logins everything is fine, too. Its just on first login they are greeted with something along the lines of “home directory was not found in the usual place or cannot be accessed”.

One other thing I tried was symlinking /usr/homes to -> /Users – everything still works fine, except for that benign error.

The system log is full of errors like this during the first login, always 20 attempts. Subsequent logins to the system occur much faster, since its not polling the directory.

loginwindow[70]: Failed to stat homedir: sleeping 1 second: chdir returns -1 for /usr/homes/{username}: Attempt 20

Any ideas? Thanks!