Re: 2.6.14-rc1-mm1

From: Neil Brown
Date: Sat Sep 17 2005 - 05:11:32 EST


On Friday September 16, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Avuton Olrich <avuton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/16/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc1/2.6.14-rc1-mm1/
> > > (temp copy at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.14-rc1-mm1.gz)
> >
> > NFS (server) is not working for me with 2.6.14-rc1-mm1, this doesn't
> > appear to be an NFS4 specific issue, I tried without NFS4 compiled in.
> >
> > Going back to 2.6.13-mm1 works.
> >
> > When trying to start NFS I get:
> > nfssvc: Permission Denied
>
> It all works for me. Would it be possible for you to generate an strace of
> the failure?

The portmap client in the kernel has changed to not used a privileged
port, and some 'portmap' servers (/usr/sbin/portmap) don't like that,
so nfsd gets an error when it tries to register with portmap, and
returns that through nfssvc.

I believe Chuck is looking into it.

NeilBrown
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