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Subject: Re: hang in rpccon from interrupting NFS operations (Re: pointyhat
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Adrenalin wrote:
> Rick thank you for the answer.
> 
> I'll "put my heart into the teeth" and will try to go for the stable.
> 
> This is kind of critical I guess, I think it should really go to the
> release. It's the first time I got into a such a nasty bug with freebsd.

Unfortunately the release has 'left the station', however I guess we 
might be able to add a pointer in the erratum document.
I'm not sure who is in charge of that doc.  (re?)



> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Adrenalin wrote:
>>
>>  Hi, I would like to know if this bug has been fixed in the FreeBSD 8
>>> Release
>>> since I got it 3 times already on a busy box that use heavily NFS (with
>>> lots
>>> of files).
>>> Unfortunately my processes are not compiled with debug symbols(so I cannot
>>> get an backtrace), but I've got all the php-cgi stuck in the "rpccon"
>>> state
>>> just like described here, I cannot kill them and I cannot cleanly reboot,
>>> manual restart is required.
>>>
>>>  I suspect that what you are seeing is fixed by:
>>  http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/patches/freebsd8-clntvc.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ermacklem/patches/freebsd8-clntvc.patch>
>>
>> It is in head and stable/8, but did not make the FreeBSD8.0 release.
>>
>> I believe that the patch is safe to add to a FreeBSD8.0 release kernel.
>>
>> rick
>>
>>
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