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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 1996 04:26:22 -0800
From:      gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        dfr@render.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1 panic: panic: nfsreq nogrps 
Message-ID:  <10191.820671982@westhill.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 21:38:13 PST." <199601030538.VAA00222@corbin.Root.COM> 

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David Greenman wrote in message ID
<199601030538.VAA00222@corbin.Root.COM>:
> >in the origional mail), and I was just looking at the program which
> >was running at the time, and it does nothing more complicated than
 
>    The setgroups() can happen at any time and doesn't in itself cause a panic.
> The panic message "nfsreq nogrps" indicates that an I/O operation is being
> attempted on behalf of a process that has no groups in it's group list. This
> isn't a valid state as group[0] is always the effective gid. If the process
> didn't get this way because of setgroups(), then it's happening somewhere
> else in the kernel. I suppose one work-around kludge might be to substitute
> the "nobody" group (-2) for processes that otherwise belong to no groups.

Look likes we'll need to do that as with a freshly updated copy of the
sources it just suffered the same panic again.

Gary




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