From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932230AbWC3ObA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932234AbWC3ObA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:00 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:61338 "EHLO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932230AbWC3ObA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34 To: Trond Myklebust cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: NFS/Kernel Problem: getfh failed: Operation not permitted In-Reply-To: <1143728720.8074.41.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Message-ID: References: <1143728720.8074.41.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> 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 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 >