hang in rpccon from interrupting NFS operations (Re: pointyhat panic)

Adrenalin adrenalinup at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 11:38:40 UTC 2010


Rick thank you for the answer.

I'll "put my heart into the teeth" and will try to go for the stable.

This is kind of critical I guess, I think it should really go to the
release. It's the first time I got into a such a nasty bug with freebsd.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Adrenalin wrote:
>
>  Hi, I would like to know if this bug has been fixed in the FreeBSD 8
>> Release
>> since I got it 3 times already on a busy box that use heavily NFS (with
>> lots
>> of files).
>> Unfortunately my processes are not compiled with debug symbols(so I cannot
>> get an backtrace), but I've got all the php-cgi stuck in the "rpccon"
>> state
>> just like described here, I cannot kill them and I cannot cleanly reboot,
>> manual restart is required.
>>
>>  I suspect that what you are seeing is fixed by:
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/patches/freebsd8-clntvc.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ermacklem/patches/freebsd8-clntvc.patch>
>
> It is in head and stable/8, but did not make the FreeBSD8.0 release.
>
> I believe that the patch is safe to add to a FreeBSD8.0 release kernel.
>
> rick
>
>


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