Here is a crash server side with 3.4.0qa6. Note that frame is filled by an ASCII string that obviously comes from a file on the glusterfs volume: there has been buffer overrun somewhere. I have tried to run glusterfs with electric fence in the past, without any success. Is there a preferred way to debug that kind of thing? The backtrace may be insightful to someone knowledgable. crash at server.c: 136 frame->next->prev = frame->prev; #0 0xb98d7022 in FRAME_DESTROY (frame=0xbb786f20) at ../../../../libglusterfs/src/stack.h:136 #1 STACK_DESTROY (stack=0xba90757c) at ../../../../libglusterfs/src/stack.h:174 #2 server_submit_reply (frame=0xba907cd8, req=0xb94060c0, arg=0xb13ff284, payload=0x0, payloadcount=0, iobref=0xb020ab50, xdrproc=0xbbb655c0 <xdr_gfs3_lookup_rsp>) at server.c:197 #3 0xb98eb329 in server_lookup_cbk (frame=0xba907cd8, cookie=0xbb786eb0, this=0xb9c28000, op_ret=0, op_errno=<optimized out>, inode=0xb8b05bf4, stbuf=0xb13ff910, xdata=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at server-rpc-fops.c:164 #4 0xb9d2428e in io_stats_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb786eb0, cookie=0xbb7859b0, this=0xb9c27000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, xdata=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at io-stats.c:1479 #5 0xb9d3126f in marker_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb7859b0, cookie=0xbb786d60, this=0xb9c26000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, dict=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at marker.c:2211 #6 0xbbb99a13 in default_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb786d60, cookie=0xbb785550, this=0xb9c25000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, xdata=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at defaults.c:37 #7 0xb9d509ec in iot_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb785550, cookie=0xbb786270, this=0xb9c24000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, xdata=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at io-threads.c:336 #8 0xb9d69d8d in pl_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb786270, cookie=0xbb786040, this=0xb9c23000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, xdata=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at posix.c:2020 #9 0xbb80b841 in posix_acl_lookup_cbk (frame=0xbb786040, cookie=0xbb786f20, this=0xb9c21000, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, inode=0xb8b05bf4, buf=0xb13ff910, xattr=0xba509258, postparent=0xb13ff8a8) at posix-acl.c:741 #10 0xb9d7e07b in posix_lookup (frame=0xbb786f20, this=0xb9c20000, loc=0xba60c478, xdata=0xba509990) at posix.c:178 #11 0xbb809c27 in posix_acl_lookup (frame=0xbb786040, this=0xb9c21000, loc=0xba60c478, xattr=0xba509990) at posix-acl.c:793 #12 0xb9d6452d in pl_lookup (frame=0xbb786270, this=0xb9c23000, loc=0xba60c478, xdata=0xba509990) at posix.c:2062 #13 0xb9d541be in iot_lookup_wrapper (frame=0xbb785550, this=0xb9c24000, loc=0xba60c478, xdata=0xba509990) at io-threads.c:346 #14 0xbbbae3cb in call_resume_wind (stub=0xba60c458) at call-stub.c:2689 #15 call_resume (stub=0xba60c458) at call-stub.c:4142 #16 0xb9d545c5 in iot_worker (data=0xb9c42040) at io-threads.c:191 (gdb) print frame $1 = (call_frame_t *) 0xbb786f20 (gdb) print *frame $2 = {root = 0x4e4f4c47, parent = 0x90a2c47, next = 0x45524353, prev = 0x54092c47, local = 0x414f4c46, this = 0x44547c54, ret = 0x4c42554f, (...) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx