nfs problems

[Daniel Braniss]

> Hi,
> starting about last week, I'm getting:
> 
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken 
> pipe (32)
> rsync: write failed on "/net/rnd/dist/tmp/local/amd64.FreeBSD_8.3-wip/compat/li
> nux/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl": Permission denied (13)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(322) [receiver=3.0.9]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (21872 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) 
> [sender=3.0.9]
> 
> the server is running 8.2, but the client is very upto date, 8.3-stable as of 
> this morning
> (local time).
> 
> after runing rsync several times, it finaly gets synced.
> 
> another item is that i'm using am-utils, but I don't see it causing the problem
> 
> I will try using tcp (instead of udp) soon.
> 
> any insights?
> 
> cheers,
> 	danny

the problem is most probably NFS/UDP related.

I took am-utils out of the equation.
mounted using TCP, and no problems
mounted using UDP:
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: nfs server nrnfdn:sf/s ds isseterr:vve ernr o 
trrnn dd:r:e/s/pddoinisdsitt::n  nngoo
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: tt
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: 
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: <<66>>  rreessppoonnddiinngg
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: 
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 kernel: nfs server rnd:/dist: not responding
Jun 29 12:38:14 pe-02 last message repeated 11 times
Jun 29 12:38:27 pe-02 kernel: nfs server rnd:/dist: is alive again

the above happens about every 15 seconds
(you have to learn to read in between the bytes :-)

cheers,
	danny