Re: Fw: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3)

[Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>]

Dear Trond,

thank you for the fast reply. I chose the first solution (unsetting 
CONFIG_SECURITY)
as I don't have local security modules anyhow. and our problem disapeared.

Is there any reason to nevertheless install your patch?

Cheers

Willy

Trond Myklebust wrote:

>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
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>Cheers,
>  Trond
>
>
>På lau , 21/02/2004 klokka 21:43, skreiv Andrew Morton:
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>>fyi..
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:36:13 +0100
>>From: Willy Weisz <weisz@vcpc.univie.ac.at>
>>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
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