NFS Locking Issue
Michael Collette
Michael.Collette at TestEquity.com
Thu Jun 29 20:43:21 UTC 2006
Rong-en Fan wrote:
> 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.
I am running STABLE on all my test boxes, and the problem is very much
there. It's not everything that locks up though. I'm able to bring X
up with twm, but unable to launch any Gnome or KDE applications without
them being stranded in a lock state.
I sure would have loved for your suggestion to be correct. For what
it's worth, all the boxes I'm working with are on STABLE no more than a
week old. I ran fresh build worlds on all of them before getting the
rest of my configs going.
Thanks,
--
Michael Collette
IT Manager
TestEquity LLC
Michael.Collette at TestEquity.com
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