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Date:      Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:32:50 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfs locking (was: Re: OOO 2.0 compiles but doesn't work properly)
Message-ID:  <op.s038c0m98527sy@outgoing.local>
In-Reply-To: <20051201164955.788ba69e.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
References:  <20051201164955.788ba69e.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>

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On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:49:55 +0100, Gerrit Kühn  
<gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:29:02 -0500 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote
> about OOO 2.0 compiles but doesn't work properly:
>
> RH> >  The home directory is coming from a nfs-server, so the user-setup
> RH> >  should be identical. I already tried to delete .openoffice.org2,
> RH> >  but that didn't help either. Any further hints?
>
> RH> 	Yes - check the archives.  There was at least one other person
> RH> reporting problems with OpenOffice+NFS.
>
> Yes, I see... the problem seems so be that you have to run lockd and  
> statd
> to get ooo running on nfs. The machine where everything's working fine is
> running 5.4 with statd and lockd. The machine with the problems is  
> running
> 6.0 and didn't have statd and lockd activated.
> However, activating them (and rebooting) didn't solve the problem here.
> That's why I'm taking this over to -stable mailing list:
>
> I've got a FreeBSD 6.0 NFS client here, which is connected to a FreeBSD
> 4.10-Server. Both sides are running statd and lockd, but processes
> requesting locks (kdm in the first place after booting here) get stuck in
> the state "lockd". The same setup works fine with a FreeBSD 5.4 client.  
> Are
> there any known problems concerning nfs and 6.0, or do I miss anything
> else?

Another me too: freebsd 6.0-stable client and a Linux 2.6.x debian 3.1  
server.
All processes that try to lock a file hang in stats lockd.
A workaround is using the -L option of mount_nfs.

-- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands



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