Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 112372
Get a Stale NFS handle whith the firewall on
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:04:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; WMM; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: When I used NFS with REDHAT 9. I could ENABLE the firewall with WWW, SSH as trusted services and as a trusted device eth0 (i don't have more eth devices). When i upgraded from REDHAT 9 to Fedora Core 1 i did make a NFS connection. > mount enterprise:/dos-e /mnt/smb I could do cd to the directory i want to go to. I could do a ls. I did get the ls information. when i did a: > rpm -Uvh *.rpm (update packages) I get a: error open of (filename) failed: Stale NFS file handle. When i disable the firewall it works fine. I have a few questions: 1) Why did it work on REDHAT 9 and not on Fedora Core 1 ? 2) How do i configure my firewall that it enables nfs-connections, www and ssh and not the rest? 3) Why don't i have the same kind of problem when i make an smb connection. In that case the firewall could be enabled and still smb works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Firewall on Enable (WWW, SSH and eth0 trusted) 2.mount a nfs directory on a mounting point 3.try to install a file with rpm Actual Results: --> Error Stale-handle. Expected Results: Just an installation of a rpm. Additional info:
When i tryed later to update packages with nfs i dit get again a stale handle. I tryed the packages gnu_cash and ltpf. I think for some little packages it works fine, but for bigger packages i get a stale handle. Can anybody say my how this is possible. When i mount the same directory using smb i don't have any problems.
I don't believe that the firewall should have any affect on creating stale NFS file handles.
I have tree pc's. The enterprise is the hostmachine, where the rpm's are. I log in on all tree machine's as root because i have to update. I do a mount on the first machine, the Britanica. I mount the enterprise:/dos-e on /mnt/smb on the britanica. Dos-e is a fat32 partition (Win98). After the mount i go to the directory: cd /mnt/smb cd download/new/linux/redhat/fedora/errata/packages/to_install ls till sofar it always works. Sometimes i can do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm or a rpm -Fvh *.rpm and it works but sometimes i get a stale handle. I always get a stale handle when: If i try to mount the directory on another machine, and go to the install-directory on the mounted dos-e-dir i get a stale handle on the first machine. When i have a stale handle on say the Britanica, i can mount again and go again to the install-directory. A do first everything i have to do on this machine and then go to the other machine and start with mounting the directory. I thought it must be possible to have more than one PC mounted on the same directory at the same time.
This is not an iptable problem, whichis the user-land tool. This might be a kernel problem. Assigning to kernel.
do you still see this problem with the current Fedora releases ? FC1 reached end of life a while ago, so unless its still occuring, this should be closed.