Description of problem: A part of NFS is crashing randomly on my Fedora 9 server. this machine runs LDAP for my users to connect their accounts. Sometimes we can't open documents, clients are freezing. Applications already opened are still working, new ones go on disk waiting in system watch. in /var/log/messages I saw this : rpc.statd[1789]: segfault at 7 ip 0035456e sp bfa40f80 error 4 in libc-2.8.so[24b000+163000] I managed to make the system work again by restarting nfs and nfslock services [root@ia74-tournette ~]# service nfslock restart Arrêt du verrouillage de NFS : [ OK ] Arrêt de NFS statd : [ÉCHOUÉ] Démarrage de NFS statd : [ OK ] NFS statd was dead. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nfs-utils-lib-1.1.1-5.fc9.i386 nfs-utils-1.1.2-11.fc9.i386 How reproducible: nfs/nfslock crashes randomly Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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Are seeing this problem with later releases of nfs-utils?
No, it seems to me this bug has been fixed in Fedora 10, i don't have this problem anymore, only some lockd crashes, but I can restart nfs without crashing the entire server.