From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: We recently upgraded our Linux workstations from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 and we began noticing NFS locking problems. Users are unable to get locks on files from their NFS mounted home directories being served from a SUN Solaris server. When the machine was rolled back to RHEL 3U4 the problem goes away. Nothing has changed on the server side, the same NFS home directory is being mounted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. export KRB5CCNAME=/<nfs mounted home>/krb-ticket.cache 2. /usr/kerberos/bin/kinit At this point the kinit freezes and the following in noticed in an xterminal window running top: top - 12:16:36 up 1:39, 5 users, load average: 0.30, 0.14, 0.10 Tasks: 109 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 4.8% us, 4.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 88.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 2.3% si Mem: 1034156k total, 354408k used, 679748k free, 7372k buffers Swap: 2097136k total, 165728k used, 1931408k free, 181128k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2228 rpc 15 0 2560 412 336 S 10.6 0.0 0:04.83 portmap 5002 joeuser 15 0 58116 18m 8844 S 4.3 1.8 0:10.74 gnome-terminal 3310 root 16 0 207m 36m 5052 S 2.7 3.6 1:51.17 X 2308 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.7 0.0 0:00.87 lockd 3755 joeuser 16 0 19808 1744 1556 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.47 gnome-settings- Notice that portmap and lockd are running and continue to run until the kinit is killed/terminated. The following is output from an strace of the portmap command: munmap(0xb7fff000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/hosts.deny", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=347, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fff000 read(6, "#\n# hosts.deny\tThis file describ"..., 4096) = 347 read(6, "", 4096) = 0 close(6) = 0 munmap(0xb7fff000, 4096) = 0 write(5, "\200\0\0\34GG\261\335\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND, revents=POLLIN|POLLRDNORM}], 3, -1) = 1 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 35000) = 1 read(5, "\200\0\0TGG\261\337\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2"..., 400) = 88 open("/etc/hosts.allow", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=161, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fff000 read(6, "#\n# hosts.allow\tThis file descri"..., 4096) = 161 read(6, "", 4096) = 0 close(6) = 0 munmap(0xb7fff000, 4096) 3. export KRB5CCNAME= or export KRB5CCNAME=/<local file system> Unexport the KRB5CCNAME variable, it will normally default to /tmp which is a local file system. 4)joeuser: /usr/kerberos/bin/kinit Password for joeuser: joeuser: I am also able to reproduce this problem with evolution. Apparently evolution is trying to get locks and it exhibits the same behavior. Additional info:
Created attachment 111548 [details] snoop data on solaris server of Linux client The attached tar file contains network snoops of three different machines. In our environment our home directories are nfs mounted, I logged into three different machines RH9/RHEL3/RHEL4 and did the same export/kinit command. On the RH9 and RHEL3 machine I was successful but on the RHEL4 machine the command failed.
Please updated to RHEL4 U1. The fix for this problem is in that release
Has U1 fixed this issue? If not what version of Solairs was were you using and what was the mount command that was being used.
Yes U1 has appeared to fix the NFS locking problem that we were noticing. Thanks for you help in resolving this critical issue.
Closing this bug out based on comment 6.