NFS root failure on SPARC

baccala@freesoft.org
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 04:24:46 -0400 (EDT)

Hi -

I'm running a recent (2.2.5) Linux kernel, netbooting on a diskless
SPARC. I'm using NFS root, and get this message (from
net/sunrpc/sched.c) shortly after mounting the root fs:

rpciod: active tasks at shutdown?!

Furthermore, when this message prints, it looks like rpciod_users is 1,
even though the code looks to me like it should never reach this point
unless rpciod_users becomes 0.

And, of course, if I turn on all the RPC/NFS debugging flags,
everything works fine, suggesting some kind of race condition,
possibly to due with the semaphore code, but that's just a guess.

Has anybody seen anything like this? Your input would be welcome.

-- 
					-bwb


					Brent Baccala
					baccala@freesoft.org


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