From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: This is the same bug as #84134 logged against RHEL3. When an application dies unexpectedly while holding a file lock on an NFS mounted filesystem, the nfs-utils doesn't clean up the NFS locks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run an application that writes data to an NFS mounted drive. 2. Terminate the application with a kill -9 Actual Results: The there are still read and write locks on the file belonging to the dead processes' PID. Expected Results: There would be no locks held. Additional info:
This is fixed in later FC kernels....
I'm still seeing the problem in 2.6.8-1.521, what version are you running?
this should have been fixed in the 2.6.9 update, though today theres even a 2.6.10 update available. please reopen if its still not fixed.