On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 18:15 +0300, Razvan Gavril wrote:
> I have a nfs server(kernel-server) which i use as a boot server for
> several other machines on the network. Starting with 2.6.16 i started
> noticing that when having more than one of the clients doing a lot of
> in/out on their mounted nfs shares at list one of then starts to to have
> problems when writing (don't know about reading) files. For example dpkg
> writes strange things it the /var/lib/dpkg/status file even if it worked
> perfectly before the kernel upgrade.
>
> Every time an diskless computer fails to write corectly to the nfs
> filesystem i got this messages on the nfs server (dmesg):
>
> RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x3c390000 (large)
> RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x31006261 (non-terminal)
> RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x73752070 (non-terminal)
> RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x52610100 (non-terminal)
>
> Is very simple to spot this behaver (1 write-error for client / 1 rpc
> message in server's dmesg) because apt-get is always giving an error
> message when the /var/lib/dpkg/status file contains something that it
> shouldn't. An it also can be very ease to reproduce.
>
> I tested with 2.6.17 and got the same error, although when using 2.6.15
> didn't got any errors and the clients worked perfect. Since i'm kind of
> forced to use a kernel version > 2.6.15 i really, really need to solve
> this bug. I would be glad to do it myself but i don't have the knowledge
> to do it so if is anybody that can help i can offer all the information
> that i could and also access to a system so he can track the problem.
>
>
> --
> Razvan Gavril
Did the problem start when you upgraded the clients or the server?
Cheers,
Trond
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