From: Todd Weaver <todd@m2n.com>
Subject: some programs hang when run over nfs.
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello,

I thought this was a library issue per workstation for quite awhile.
However, I have narrowed it down to this problem.

I can run programs such as nautilus, staroffice, openoffice as a local
user just fine. However, if I try to run any of the above programs as a
nis user who's home directory is an nfs mount, that program will hang.

for example (staroffice):
todd@ws04~ $ strace -f /usr/local/office/program/soffice
[snip]
[pid   589] open("/home/t/todd/.sversionrc", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid   589] fcntl(3, F_GETFD)           = 0
[pid   589] fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
[pid   589] fcntl(3, F_SETLKW, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}

This of course all occurred as soon as I upgraded debian stable to the
latest packages.

I am not sure how to track this problem any further.

I will add that as a local user there is no problem whatsoever.
but as a nis/nfs user some programs fail with similar results.
mozilla works fine, and obviously that is setup with a local binary, and
the configuration is read over nfs.

Could somebody please help me debug this further, or better yet tell me
what I need do to fix this problem.

I can easily provide more information, if somebody can tell me what would
be pertinent.

I am not a subscriber to the nfs mailing list (yet) so please reply to me
as well as the list please.

Thanks all!


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