On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:05 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I have a system which I migrated a couple of mounts from sys > authentication on nfs3 to gssapi on nfsv4 to overcome the 16 > supplementary groups limitation inherent in the "sys" security model. > > It was working for a while but now I have "stuck" (i.e. hung) NFS > mounts. It seems that a mount issued from the automounter kicked all of > this off but I cannot be sure of that. > > In my process table I have a number of processes blocked in the NFSv4 > path including a mount command: > > /bin/mount -t nfs4 -s -o sec=krb5i,rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 linux:/home/share /autohome/share BTW: NFSv4 + soft == BAD BAD BAD! You will see weird behaviour, as the client and the server will have divergent opinions on what happened if/when an RPC call fails. Otherwise, have you checked on the state of your rpc.gssd? It looked as if several of those traces were waiting around RPCSEC_GSS upcalls... Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html