Hi Bruce, Well done! Your answer to upgrade to a later version of the kernel fixed the problem. I tested this on kernel 3.7.3 and it works beautifully. Thanks very much! Richard >> This code gets hit, e.g. with the new debian stable release where >> nfs-kernel-server/nfs-common is upgraded to 1.2.6-3 (or upgrade >> nfs-kernel-server from debian stable to debian unstable). On my >> nfsv4+krb5 >> system, this seems to do exactly the opposite of the patch: not fixing, >> but in fact introducing a hanging mount. >> >> When I change the code back from unsigned uid's to signed uid's the >> mount >> works again. > > Assuming you're running kernel 3.7--this shoulds like the problem fixed > by kernel commit 621eb19ce1ec.. "svcrpc: Revert "sunrpc/cache.h: replace > simple_strtoul"", which has also been backported to 3.7.3. Could you > let us know whether applying that patch, or upgrading to 3.7.3, fixes > the problem? > > --b. -- 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
