On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:04:11 +0100 Chris Vine <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:30:42 -0400 > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > Thanks for testing them. No oops == improvement! > > > > ...but it would still be good to know what's wrong here. It sounds > > like something is really odd with loopback communications on this > > box. Is the ipv4 loopback interface up at this time? Do you have any > > iptables stuff set up that might be filtering out portmap > > registration requests from the kernel? What happens if you run > > "rpcinfo"? Does it also hang? > > > > The kernel uses TCP for talking to portmap these days, so it might > > also be good to see whether you can use rpcinfo to talk to it with > > TCP too... > > You are right. Although the lo interface is up, localhost is broken in > 2.6.35-rc3. External networking works OK which is why I hadn't noticed. > > It looks like some other unrelated bug in 2.6.35 is at work. Quite why > it doesn't strike my Pentium machine I can't say. The netbook takes its > network address from DHCP (my Pentium does not) but that shouldn't make > any difference to localhost. > > I shall do a bit more looking around later today or tomorrow. > > Chris > > Ok, good to know. I'll still plan to pursue these fixes. The error handling in nfsd obviously an area that needs improvement. I think Bruce's current plan is to take the earlier patches in that stack for 2.6.36. If this one is OK, it's probably reasonable to go in at the same time. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
