Re: 2.2.x - running programs from NFS mounted dirs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 01:13:12 +0000 (GMT)


> A while ago I reported that I have some programs misteriously segfault
> when run on 2.2.x and work well when run on 2.0.x. Now I realized
> *which* programs they where: apparently, any program started from an NFS
> mounted directory segfaults immediately. Strace shows only one syscall:
> mmap(), and then it crashes. The NFS server in my case is another Linux
> box running unfsd with 2.0.x kernel.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?

Check the file permissions on what it is trying to mmap(), especially
if you've tried 2.0.35 but not 2.0.36

Alan

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