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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:25:50 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com
Cc:        dfr@render.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1 panic: panic: nfsreq nogrps 
Message-ID:  <199601031725.JAA00438@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 96 04:26:22 PST." <10191.820671982@westhill.cdrom.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.

   Any idea why this is all-of-a-sudden happening regularly?

-DG



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