https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465955
User sjayaraman@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465955#c28
--- Comment #28 from Suresh Jayaraman 2009-02-16 01:54:12 MST ---
Irrespective of the previous comment, got a clue just now. Check if the export
has "root_squash". If so, the filesystem is exported in a way the causes 'root'
accesses to be treated as accessed by 'nobody'. So if you try to access a
setuid binary then you might be seeing this error. Changing the export option
to "no_root_squash" can fix this.
If the .Xauthority file is in cache on the client, you'll not see this error,
otherwise it will send a request to the server for root to be able to read the
file, and the server will reject the request. Ideally, the error should be
EACCES rather than ESTALE, however.
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