Re: Fw: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3)

[Willy Weisz]

Dear Trond,

thank you for the fast reply. I chose the first solution (unsetting 
CONFIG_SECURITY)
as I don't have local security modules anyhow. and our problem disapeared.

Is there any reason to nevertheless install your patch?

Cheers

Willy

Trond Myklebust wrote:

> The "Can't bind to reserved port" error message looks like the known
> problem when you set CONFIG_SECURITY. It has been discussed several
> times already on l-k.
>
> Please either disable CONFIG_SECURITY (it's not as if *that* is going to
> be a showstopper when migrating to 2.6.x from 2.4.x) or go to my website
> and apply the advertised fix:
>
> http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.3/linux-2.6.3-08-reconnect.dif
>
> Cheers,
>  Trond
>
>
> På lau , 21/02/2004 klokka 21:43, skreiv Andrew Morton:
>  
>
> > fyi..
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:36:13 +0100
> > From: Willy Weisz <weisz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Client looses NFS handle (kernel 2.6.3)
> >
> >
> > The client looses the handle to a statically mounted NFS file system. A 
> > user sees
> > a stale handle in "df" and can't access files and directories.
> >
> > When root issues a "df" or accesses a file or directory on the NFS file 
> > system,
> > it gets a correct result.
> >
> > Thereafter a normal user also can access files and directories on the 
> > NFS file system.
> > After a short time the NFS handle becomes stale again.
> > /var/log/messages contains the lines:
> > Feb 21 23:33:50 gsr108 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (13).
> > Feb 21 23:33:50 gsr108 kernel: RPC: can't bind to reserved port.
> > after a user tries to access a file on the NFS file system.
> > The NFS server runs kernel version 2.4.23 SMP. Client NFS 2.4.23 works.
> >
> > The filesystem is mounted with the following options in /etc/fstab:
> > rw,bg,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> >
> > We are stuck and can't upgrade to 2.6.x with this bug.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Willy Weisz
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> > Willy Weisz
> >
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