Bug#626061: issues with iceweasel3 and home dirs in nfs

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

package: debian-edu
severity: important

Hi,

iceweasel3 (which is the version in squeeze as well as in lenny-backports) use 
an sqlite database to save bookmarks and history. sqlite doesn't work on nfs 
filesystems. (and Debian Edu uses home directories on nfs per default.)

The user visible problem is a popup informing about bookmarks+history being 
unavailable, and, well, bookmarks and history being unavailable.


There are basically two ways out:

- mount with nolock and sync, but this reduces performance. (And locking is 
also a feature one wants to have in general.)

- on login, or better in a wrapper script to start iceweasel, move the sqlite 
database away, copy it back to the old location, remove the moved away file 
(thus effectly removing the lock which is causing the issue).

This is described in http://gwd-tech.posterous.com/recovering-firefox-3-when-
run-on-an-nfs-share


Currently I'm not sure how to solve this for Debian Edu Squeeze. What do you 
think?


cheers,
	Holger