Client NFS is broken in 1.3.82

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
02 Apr 1996 23:00:22 -0800


I've done some more poking around after getting the ``too small read
memory size (0 bytes)'' in 1.3.82. My NFS mounted /usr workstations
no longer can mount NFS at boot, while generating a ton of these
messages, and fatal errors when attempting to start the various system
daemons. This is only on the NFS-client side though. 1.3.81 NFS
client to a 1.3.82 NFS server appears to ``work''.

I'm still getting kfree messages with 1.3.82:
Apr 2 21:47:27 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 0028410c, next= 00000000, order=35

This came about when I was starting Netscape 3.0b2.

The (broken) NFS client's configuration is:
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y

#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
# CONFIG_PCI is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M486=y

#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set

#
# Please see drivers/block/README.ide for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set

#
# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set

#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
# CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
# CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set

#
#
#
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_AUTO_BIOSP is not set

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
# CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m

#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
#
# CONFIG_STRIP is not set
# CONFIG_SCC is not set
CONFIG_PLIP=m
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALPHA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
CONFIG_EL3=y
# CONFIG_VORTEX is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_PSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is not set
CONFIG_WDT=m
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set

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