nfs locking broken

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Feb 24 08:07:10 PST 2006


On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:58:09PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> It seems that NFS locking is broken for the combo of 4.11 or 5.4 server and 
> 6.x client. Apps like eclipse and firefox fail to start with my home dir on 
> a 4.11 server and a 6.x client.
> 
> Problem shows in that firefox hangs, as does eclipse.
> 
> I've tried the following combinations:
> 
> client   server
> 4.11     4.11      OK
> 5.4      4.11      OK
> 6.0      4.11      Hangs
> 6.1pre   4.11      Hangs
> 
> 4.11     5.4       OK
> 5.4      5.4       OK
> 6.0      5.4       Hangs
> 6.1pre   5.4       Hangs
> 
> 6.0      6.0       OK
> 6.1pre   6.0       OK
> 
> 
> Any ideas about this, or whom to contact?

kuriyama; there are PRs suggesting that a change he made about a year
ago caused problems.

Kris
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