Re: 2.4.19+trond and diskless locking problems

[Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:14:50AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:
> 
>      > a) ps ax | grep lockd returns:
> 
>      >    94 ?  DW 0:00 [lockd]
> 
>      >     Why would lockd be in state "D"? Looks bad. Can this happen
>      >     in normal usage? It kicks the loadavg up 1 point.
> <snip>
>      >     [ 10-second delay here ]
> 
>      >     09:24:18.988289 violinux.async.com.br.793 >
>      >     anthem.async.com.br.sometimes-rpc4: udp 180 (DF)
> 
>      >     [ 11-second delay here ]
> 
> OK, so you are sending out the RPC request to the server's NLM daemon,
> which is clearly receiving the packet (since tcpdump was able to log
> it), but is never sending a reply. Are you seeing any kernel messages
> in the syslog?

No. The kernel log (kern.* in syslog) is very quite during this period -
the only messenges I get are the eth0 promiscuous mode messages that
tcpdump triggers when it runs.

My messenges file just lists the mounts:

Nov 22 09:24:04 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:800 for /
export/root (/export) Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.99.2 to 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.99.2 to 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.99.2 (192.168.99.4) from 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:06 anthem dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.99.2 to 00:01:03:d7:f3:0a via eth0
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:707 for /home (/home) 
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:711 for /mondo (/mondo) 
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:715 for /dist (/dist) 
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:719 for /var/spool/mail (/var/spool/mail) 
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
violinux.async.com.br:712 for /export/root/var/spool/violinux (/export) 
Nov 22 09:24:08 anthem rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from violinux.async.com.br:714 for /export/root/var/log/violinux (/export) 
Nov 22 09:27:31 anthem named[141]: "lab.16.106.143.in-addr.arpa IN NS"
points to a CNAME (grande.ic .unicamp.br)

(yep, unrelated last line just to show nothing is going on)

> BTW: the tcpdumps you're showing are all UDP, not TCP...

100% true, as I noticed as I pressed "y" to send. :-)

Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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