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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:39:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Viren R.Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: repeatable crash in -current (softupdates, NFS)
Message-ID:  <14402.62122.461010.454021@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991127191729.A53832@bitbox.follo.net>
References:  <14399.63511.296802.242618@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <19991127191729.A53832@bitbox.follo.net>

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>>>>> "Eivind" == Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

 Eivind> On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Viren R.Shah wrote:
 >> 
 >> I'm running a -current system from Nov 26th (approx 4am EST).
 >> 
 >> I can currently reliably crash the system by doing:
 >> 
 >> ln -s /home/users/vshah/public_html/index.html /home/users/vshah/index.html 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> The crash only works when I do it on a NFS mounted filesystem. I'm
 >> using NFSv2/UDP. The server is a 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD box, running
 >> softupdates on the exported filesystem. I just checked that local
 >> filesystem on the server, and it is a 100% full. Can this just be put
 >> down to the known "softupdates full filesystem bug"?
 >> 
 >> [BTW: the server hasn't crashed, it's only the FreeBSD client that
 >> crashes] 

 Eivind> I *think* I know what this is due to - please upgrade
 Eivind> src/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c to revision 1.146 (which I just
 Eivind> committed) and try again.

Tried it. Doesn't work. :-( It still crashes when creating a symbolic
link on a NFS mounted filesystem. [This is unfortunate in my case,
as it prevents me from running Netscape -- the home dirs are NFS
mounted] 


 [vshah@jabberwock] ~> uname -a
FreeBSD jabberwock 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 28 11:42:23 EST 1999     vshah@jabberwock:/home/ncvs/FreeBSD/current-src/src/sys/compile/J38  i386
2240 [4:36pm]                                                                   [vshah@jabberwock] ~> grep \$FreeBSD /usr/src/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c
 * $FreeBSD: src/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c,v 1.146 1999/11/27 18:14:41 eivind Exp $


 Eivind> My bad.

 Eivind> Eivind.

Anything else that springs to mind? Anytihng I can do (diagnostics
that I can run) that will help debug this?




Viren
-- 
Viren Shah                    | "You can't trust code that you did not totally
Research Associate, RST Inc.  | create yourself. (Especially code from 
viren@rstcorp.com             | companies that employ people like me.)"
http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah | - Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust"


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