From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 20:43:21 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 C4D1916A4B3 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com) Received: from smtp.testequity.com (gateway.testequity.com [205.147.14.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1130944C52 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:24:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com) Received: from smtp.priv.testequity.com (unknown [192.168.3.27]) by smtp.testequity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1F13C447; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.3.172] (mach172.priv.testequity.com [192.168.3.172]) by smtp.priv.testequity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD09C74B; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44A4373A.4070507@TestEquity.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:25:30 -0700 From: Michael Collette Organization: TestEquity LLC User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rong-en Fan References: <44A42009.7050103@TestEquity.com> <6eb82e0606291214s4faceaegb027c1951d0aa011@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0606291214s4faceaegb027c1951d0aa011@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:43:21 -0000 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, -- Michael Collette IT Manager TestEquity LLC Michael.Collette@TestEquity.com