On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:14:52AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Sorry, I just don't know what this is off the top of my head. If I had > the time, stuff I might try: > > - look at the wire traffic with wireshark: try to figure out > which operation this is happening on, and if there's anything > unusual about the reply. May be difficult if a lot of traffic > is required to reproduce. > - if you're using krb5, try without just to see if that makes a > difference. Using "sec=krb5p" here... And with lots of active clients. :-/ Oh! Could I add another entry in /etc/exports with krb5 without afecting current krb5p clients? > - look at history: gitk v4.19..v4.20.17 fs/nfs net/sunrpc, see > if anything looks relevant; or even just try a git bisect > (difficult again given the intermittent failure). > - trace through the code to work out where call_decode might be > returning -EIO, try to narrow it down with tracepoints or even > just debugging printk's. I'm afraid I don't have the skills to carry out those tasks, haven't coded in C for decades, not to mention kernel/nfs hacking. I guess we'll have to wait until someone else hits this too, or we update the server and (hopefully/miraculously) fixes it self :-) Thanks a lot, Alberto -- Alberto González Iniesta | Universidad a Distancia alberto.gonzalez@xxxxxxxx | de Madrid