On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Peng Yu wrote: > > Yes. If you can reliably reproduce the problem, a network capture of the > > NFS traffic between the client and server as you produce the problem would > > be very helpful. > > It sounds the solution can be simpler than this. > > Here is the current problem. > > It hangs when I login to the server using an account with the home > directory mounted via NFS. > > I login to another server on which the same NFS directory is mounted > and I can delete the file corresponding to ~/.bash_history on the > first server. > > When try to login the first server, it still hangs. When I login this > server using another account without NFS mounted as home, I can see > there is a file ~/.nfs000000160000351200000001 in the first account's > home (but not ~/.bash_history anymore). After I delete > ~/.nfs000000160000351200000001 in the first account home, I am able to > login using the first account. > > Can anybody pinpoint the cause of the problem given the above description? That's expected behavior, see: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d2 Ben -- 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