NFS Locking Issue

[Rong-en Fan]

On 6/29/06, Michael Collette <Michael.Collette at testequity.com> wrote:
> This last week I had been working on a test network to test out 6.1
> prior to upgrading our production boxes from 5.4.  That's when I ran
> across the rpc.lockd issues that have been discussed earlier.
>
> Our production setup has diskless clients running KDE, which due to this
> bug is now dead on 6.1.  I also have my mail server delivering messages
> to a file server via NFS.  I even have servers booting diskless with NFS
> provided file systems... all of which are dead on 6.1.
>
> The last discussion our bug updates I've seen on this issue were about 3
> months ago.  This leaves me with a number of questions I hope can be
> answered here on this list.
>
> Is NFS a big deal for most other users, or am I out here on the fringe
> using it as much as I do?
>
> Is anyone working on a fix for this?  If so, is there any kind of time
> frame where this fix might be MFC'd to 6-STABLE?
>
> I guess I'm still just a bit stunned that a bug this obvious not only
> found it's way into the STABLE branch, but is still there.  Maybe it's
> not as obvious as I think, or not many folks are using it?  All I know
> for sure here is that if I had upgraded to 6.1 my network would have
> been crippled.

Try 6.1-STABLE, especially make sure you have

     $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/kern.c,v 1.16.2.1 2006/06/02
01:20:58 rodrigc Exp $

for usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/kern.c, and see if this helps.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan