From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: [pme@devphil.com: Bug#239158: Strange exportfs problems, fantastically unhelpful error message] Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:35:15 -0500 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040321153515.GW29237@perlsupport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B54z9-0006GD-IF for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:35:35 -0800 Received: from topaz.cx ([66.220.6.227] helo=mail.topaz.cx ident=mail) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B54z3-0007Wm-Vv for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:35:30 -0800 Received: from home.topaz.cx ([66.58.78.58] helo=tytlal) by mail.perlsupport.com with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B54z1-0003wh-00 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:35:27 -0800 Received: from chip by tytlal with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B54yp-000420-35 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:35:15 -0500 To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: This Debian bug report includes an exportfs problem which I suspect is due to one export tree under the other, and an error message complaint which I think is justified.... ----- Forwarded message from Phil Edwards ----- Subject: Bug#239158: Strange exportfs problems, fantastically unhelpful error message From: Phil Edwards To: Debian Bug Tracking System Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:37:43 -0500 Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.0.6-1 Severity: normal [~]# cat /etc/exports /usr/local fenric(ro,async) hreidmar(ro,async) /home fenric(rw,sync) hreidmar(rw,sync) [~]# exportfs -v -r exporting hreidmar:/usr/local exporting fenric:/usr/local exporting hreidmar:/home exporting fenric:/home exporting hreidmar:/usr/local to kernel hreidmar:/usr/local: Invalid argument exporting fenric:/usr/local to kernel fenric:/usr/local: Invalid argument reexporting hreidmar:/home to kernel reexporting fenric:/home to kernel [~]# I have no idea why the export fails. If either line is commented, then the export succeeds; presumably that's strong evidence of /something/, but I don't know the nfs-kernel-server code at all and so can't say what. My real complaint is that "Invalid argument" doesn't tell me a damn thing, so I have no idea what to try next. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux fenric 2.4.22-fenric3 #1 SMP Sun Oct 12 00:45:53 EDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages nfs-kernel-server depends on: ii debconf 1.4.7 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii nfs-common 1:1.0.6-1 NFS support files common to client ii sysvinit 2.85-9 System-V like init. -- debconf information: nfs-kernel-server/sync-default: nfs-kernel-server/tcpwrappers-mountd: ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs