Hello list. We experienced some problems with one of our RHEL 5 servers, but are having difficulties finding the cause. Before we got the chance to gather enough information I had to reboot the server, and are left with little information about the state before reboot. For what it's worth I'll outline the symptoms we saw, just in case someone has experienced a similar thing and knows something what may have caused these problems. The symptoms we saw were these: 1. Running "ls" a particular folder gave us an input/output error. This folder is exported read only as an NFS share, and was mounted on a client. 2. Running "/etc/init.d/nfs stop" resulted in a error containing "Shutting down NFS services: exportfs: could not open /var/lib/nfs/etab for locking" and "rm: cannot remove `/var/lock/subsys/nfs': Read-only file system" 3. Both the Red Hat Satellite probe and syslog (an possibly others) had stopped working at approximately the same time. First we thought the problems had something to do with NFS because of the first two elements in the list above. But we don't see why a read only share would case such problems. And the syslog/probe issues doesn't seem to be related to NFS. Furthermore, we don't see any indication of file system or hardware problems. In short, we're not sure what exactly caused these problems, but a restart seems to have done the trick. And since we didn't get to gather much info, it's very difficult to get to the bottom of this. But does anyone have an idea on what kind of problem source may cause the symptoms described above? Maybe this is a well known bug of some kind. Please ask me for further details if needed. Regards, Kenneth Holter -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
