From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932203AbWC3NUR (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:20:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932204AbWC3NUR (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:20:17 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:30356 "EHLO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932203AbWC3NUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:20:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:19:59 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: NFS/Kernel Problem: getfh failed: Operation not permitted Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The error is: rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted In order to fix this error, someone needs to run these commands on each nfs server. 40 service nfs stop 41 rm -f /var/lib/nfs/etab /var/lib/nfs/rmtab /var/lib/nfs/state /var/lib/xtab 42 touch /var/lib/nfs/etab /var/lib/nfs/rmtab /var/lib/nfs/state /var/lib/xtab 43 chmod 644 /var/lib/nfs/etab /var/lib/nfs/rmtab /var/lib/nfs/state /var/lib/xtab 44 service nfs start http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/johan/personal/linux.html This issue seems to be more of an NFS issue than a kernel one, but I was wondering what other people had to say about it. There are a lot of responses and questions concerning this error on google, but VERY few people have a response or method of fixing it, much less finding a permanent fix. Has anyone found a fix or work-around that does not require restarting NFS? Please CC as I am not on either list. Thanks, Justin.