From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 22:19:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481BF16A403 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out1.tiscali.nl (smtp-out1.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A751C457B9 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:19:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [82.171.39.195] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out1.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1Fw4qt-0005xp-OJ for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:19:11 +0200 Received: (qmail 925 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2006 22:19:10 -0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; 29 Jun 2006 22:19:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:19:09 +0200 To: "Michael Collette" , "Rong-en Fan" From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44A42009.7050103@TestEquity.com> <6eb82e0606291214s4faceaegb027c1951d0aa011@mail.gmail.com> <44A4373A.4070507@TestEquity.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44A4373A.4070507@TestEquity.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Locking Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:19:13 -0000 On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:25:30 +0200, Michael Collette wrote: > Rong-en Fan wrote: >> On 6/29/06, Michael Collette 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, Hello, I run my client with the -L mount option. This makes NFS locks local to the client, which is a workaround for me. If you depend on locks enforced on the server it wil not work. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands