Bug 209667

Summary:	nfs-utils: rpm.mountd dies since rhel4.3 -> 4.4 upgrade
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4.4	CC:	staubach, steved
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Description Rex Dieter 2006-10-06 18:45:50 UTC

I'm seeing something similar to bug #206483... but no syslog, rpc.mountd just
mysteriously dies and goes awol.  

The i686 server in question had been running happily for the previous 75 days w/
rhel 4.3... that is until I updated to 4.4 yesterday and rebooted.  rpc.mountd
has died now 5 times since then.

If it's relavent, we're using NIS, but not netgroups.

Comment 1 Steve Dickson 2006-10-09 14:00:13 UTC

Install the rpms from http://people.redhat.com/steved/bz209121/. If
the problem still exists, either have rpc.mountd create a core
file by setting the core file size via ulimit -c unlimited or 
start rpc.mountd from within gdb using the '-f' as a command arg.
The goal being to get a backtrace of where the problem starts.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2006-10-09 14:05:38 UTC

Taking a hint from the CentOS mailing list, where others were having problems
with nscd (crashing, etc...), I disabled nscd, and haven't had an rpm.mountd
crash yet.  *crosses fingers*.

Comment 3 Jeff Layton 2007-07-20 11:52:27 UTC

I've not heard of any other reports of this. Is this still an issue?

Comment 4 Jeff Layton 2007-07-20 11:55:47 UTC

This may be a dupe of BZ 242465. I've already committed the patch below for 4.6:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1157791&group_id=14&atid=100014

I'll see if I can put some nfs-utils packages up on my peoplepage here soon for
you to test...

Comment 5 Jeff Layton 2007-07-20 18:56:35 UTC

I've placed some RHEL4 nfs-utils packages on my people page:

http://people.redhat.com/jlayton

If you're still able to reproduce this, could you test them someplace
non-critical and let me know if the problem still exists?

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2007-07-20 19:02:29 UTC

I've never had any problems since disabling nscd (see comment #2).

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2007-07-20 19:06:19 UTC

Afaic, issue is resolved.  (hmm, it wouldn't let me close...)

I have nowhere (non-critical) to test your experimental nfs-utils pkgs atm, but
if I get a chance to... I'll come back here and report.

Comment 8 Jeff Layton 2007-07-20 19:10:24 UTC

Fair enough. I'll close this with a resolution of INSUFFICIENT_DATA. If the
problem resurfaces then please reopen this case.