Re: Bugs in NFS client in Linux 2.2.3 - I need your help to debug it.

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:15:51 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez wrote:

> I continue seeing problems with Linux 2.2.3 NFS client. I am editing
> text files under XEmacs. After long time working, I see that the files
> on the server are corrupted with NULLs at the start, or truncated to
> size 0. If I look at the files from the Linux client, they look OK.

The Solaris NFS server is known to do this.

There's a patch available, though.

> I cannot debug the problem with tcpdump, because it does not work. When
> I try to run tcpdump, it gives this complain:
> tcpdump: socket: Socket type not supported

You need to build your kernel with SOCK_PACKET support (or as a module).
Then it'll start working again.

Matthew.

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