From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261839AbUBWNP6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:15:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261840AbUBWNP6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:15:58 -0500 Received: from anatevka.vcpc.univie.ac.at ([131.130.186.140]:51588 "EHLO anatevka.vcpc.univie.ac.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261839AbUBWNPq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:15:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4039FCF8.20008@vcpc.univie.ac.at> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:15:36 +0100 From: Willy Weisz Organization: VCPC, European Centre for Parallel Computing at Vienna User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-at, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trond Myklebust CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kurt Rabitsch Subject: Re: Fw: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3) References: <20040221214345.6533eb68.akpm@osdl.org> <1077444724.2944.10.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > >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/ >> >> >> > > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- 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