Re: NFS/Kernel Problem: getfh failed: Operation not permitted

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:19 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Very few people ought to be running RH-9 out there given that the
> official support expired several years ago.
Not running RH9, but running RHEL WS3, Taroon Update 4, however, the 
nfs-utils is 1.0.6-33EL, I know there were many fixes in 1.0.7+, could 
nfs-utils be the problem?  The kernel version in question is 
2.4.21-31.ELa1smp.

>
> Are you still seeing this problem with 2.6 kernels with /proc/fs/nfsd
> properly mounted?
Not using 2.6.

>
> Cheers,
>  Trond
>