From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: Upgrade to 2.6.24 breaks NFS service Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:57:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20080213075738.086f7b32@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> References: <87lk5pjkro.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <20080213021912.b127c4a7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Nix Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50211 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759448AbYBMM5x (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:57:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080213021912.b127c4a7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:19:12 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc linux-nfs) > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:58:03 +0000 Nix wrote: > > > I upgraded from 2.6.23.10 to 2.6.24.2 yesterday, and found NFS > > service failing. > > > > To be specific, all locks were blocking forever, with an endless > > flood of > > > > Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: statd: server localhost not > > responding, timed out Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: lockd: > > cannot monitor esperi Feb 12 22:53:45 loki notice: kernel: statd: > > server localhost not responding, timed out Feb 12 22:53:45 loki > > notice: kernel: lockd: cannot monitor esperi Feb 12 22:54:20 loki > > notice: kernel: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out > > Feb 12 22:54:20 loki notice: kernel: lockd: cannot monitor esperi > > Feb 12 22:54:55 loki notice: kernel: statd: server localhost not > > responding, timed out Feb 12 22:54:55 loki notice: kernel: lockd: > > cannot monitor esperi Feb 12 22:55:20 esperi notice: kernel: lockd: > > server loki.wkstn.nix not responding, still trying > > > > (esperi is a UML instance on the same machine, connected via a > > bridged TUN/TAP interface: the bridge, and network service to > > esperi and to the rest of the local net across that bridge, was > > fine.) > > > > I'm currently using NFSv3 atop nfs-utils 1.1.0.33-gdd08789, with > > daemons being started in the suggested order (portmap, mountd, statd > > --no-notify, nfsd). This evening I'm going to try to upgrade to > > nfs-utils HEAD and see if this continues. > > > If upgrading nfs-utils doesn't help, on this box, could you run: # rpcinfo -p localhost send the output? statd expects that lockd will always be listening on a UDP socket and some changes recently made it so that when there are only TCP mounts that it doesn't necessarily do so. That may be the problem here. -- Jeff Layton