Re: RPC: garbage, retrying 20630

David van der Spoel (spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:52:29 +0200 (CEST)


On 24 Sep 1999, Trond Myklebust wrote:

>> Long:
>> client: vanilla 2.2.12 Celeron 400 (No Overclocking) Realtek 8139 @ 100
>> Mbit/s
>> server: 2.2.12 w/knfsd1.4.7 and raid 19990824 (but the exported disk is
>> not on the raid array) w Dual PII 350 and 3com905b network.
>> The client has a DLT drive installed on an Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI
>> Doing backup from local disk goes just fine, over NFS after 30 minutes it
>> quits with:
>> Sep 24 12:57:34 kahlo kernel: RPC: garbage, retrying 20630
>> Sep 24 12:57:34 kahlo kernel: RPC: garbage, retrying 20630
>> Sep 24 12:57:34 kahlo kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO
>> after this, the mount is gone and I get a lot of stale file handle
>> messages until the tar process stops.
>
>Could be various things. 2 possibilities that spring to mind are:
>
> 1) Amd is corrupting the RPC packets. Try throwing out amd.
Tried without amd, and could not reproduce problem so far. But once a disk
is mounted, what does amd have to do with it????

> 2) The server has forgotten about your mount authentication (happens
> every now and then due to a bug when using NIS groups in the
> /etc/exports file). If this is the case, try putting 'client'
> explicitly in /etc/exports rather than using the NIS group.
This I already had, because I get connection refused without it...

Groeten, David.
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