From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:11:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:11:25 -0500 Received: from rafiu.psi-domain.co.uk ([212.87.84.199]:58374 "HELO rafiu.psi-domain.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:11:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:12:30 +0000 From: James Chivers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO Message-ID: <20011106111230.C1294@unimatrix001> Reply-To: chiversj@psi-domain.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Balsa 1.0.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear All, I have recently deployed a Linux server running SuSE 7.2, with kernel 2.4.7-64GB-SMP, and are getting a string of entries in /var/log/messages like - Nov 4 20:16:49 myserver kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO Nov 4 20:17:20 myserver last message repeated 251 times Nov 4 20:18:21 myserver last message repeated 556 times Nov 4 20:19:22 myserver last message repeated 442 times Nov 4 20:20:23 myserver last message repeated 650 times Nov 4 20:21:24 myserver last message repeated 598 times Nov 4 20:22:25 myserver last message repeated 394 times Nov 4 20:23:26 myserver last message repeated 724 times Nov 4 20:24:27 myserver last message repeated 702 times Nov 4 20:25:28 myserver last message repeated 380 times Nov 4 20:25:31 myserver last message repeated 34 times The box is configured as an nfs client, but not server. The nfs servers to which it mounts have no /var/log/messages entries like Nov 4 20:00:00 nfs_server: bad getargs - as was previously suggested on a thread many moons ago. I'm having trouble re-producing the errors at will, just seem to be random. I am running a continuous kernel compilation script on the box - http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hmeyer_memtest-sig11.html - and when the above errors do strike, I get (compilation) log file entry errors like - make: execvp: /bin/pwd: Permission denied t@t@re/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/make.momake: /bin/sh: Command not found t@ t@Rules.make:288: .depend: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE/include/linux/proc_fs.h', needed by `init/main.o'. make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE/include/linux/bootmem.h', needed by `init/main.o'. /bin/sh: .ver: No such file or directory Almost as if the file system gets messed up, btw - the kernel compilation script and kernel sources are on the server's local filesystem (i.e. not mounted on a remote server). Is there anything that I can do to: <1> Reproduce the error(s) found in /var/log/messages (so, at least I'll be in a better position to find a fix for it)? <2> Fix the issue by either reconfiguring my setup, or applying a know fix/patch? The server is a dual PIII 1GHz, 2GB memory on an Asus CUV4-DLS (we've recently swapped out the memory as we did get the odd sig 11, but it seems to be fine now). I thank you in advance for any help or suggestions. -- Kind regards, James Chivers