From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261218AbUBVKMV (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:12:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261220AbUBVKMU (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:12:20 -0500 Received: from adsl-207-214-87-84.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([207.214.87.84]:37380 "EHLO nidelv.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261218AbUBVKMS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:12:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Fw: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3) From: Trond Myklebust To: Andrew Morton , Willy Weisz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040221214345.6533eb68.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040221214345.6533eb68.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1077444724.2944.10.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:12:05 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The "Can't bind to reserved port" error message looks like the known problem when you set CONFIG_SECURITY. It has been discussed several times already on l-k. Please either disable CONFIG_SECURITY (it's not as if *that* is going to be a showstopper when migrating to 2.6.x from 2.4.x) or go to my website and apply the advertised fix: http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.3/linux-2.6.3-08-reconnect.dif Cheers, Trond På lau , 21/02/2004 klokka 21:43, skreiv Andrew Morton: > fyi.. > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:36:13 +0100 > From: Willy Weisz > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3) > > > The client looses the handle to a statically mounted NFS file system. A > user sees > a stale handle in "df" and can't access files and directories. > > When root issues a "df" or accesses a file or directory on the NFS file > system, > it gets a correct result. > > Thereafter a normal user also can access files and directories on the > NFS file system. > After a short time the NFS handle becomes stale again. > /var/log/messages contains the lines: > Feb 21 23:33:50 gsr108 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (13). > Feb 21 23:33:50 gsr108 kernel: RPC: can't bind to reserved port. > after a user tries to access a file on the NFS file system. > The NFS server runs kernel version 2.4.23 SMP. Client NFS 2.4.23 works. > > The filesystem is mounted with the following options in /etc/fstab: > rw,bg,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 > > We are stuck and can't upgrade to 2.6.x with this bug. > > Regards > > Willy Weisz > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Willy Weisz > > European Centre for Parallel Computing at Vienna (VCPC) > Liechtensteinstrasse 22 > A-1090 Wien > Tel: (+43 1) 4277 - 38824 Fax: (+43 1) 4277 - 9388 > e-mail: weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >