Hello,
I have some dual Pentium II boxen with SuSE 5.3, kernel 2.0.36.
They mount home directories from a farm of Suns running all possible
versions of Solaris, via autofs / NIS maps.
But the Linux boxes crash very often (once or twice a week),
which is eight times more often than my NT 4 'puter. The symptoms
are that the autofs'd dir for the home directories sometimes goes
blank (and sometimes a few mounted directories are still visible
there). But the "invisible" home directories are still mounted,
you can cd into them. I have not been able to see any pattern
of which directories disappear and which are kept visible.
If you go into a "lost" home directory, "pwd" will tell you
"pwd: cannot get current directory: Invalid argument".
If the machine isn't rebooted immediately, sooner or later
varioius programs will start generating GPF:s like the one at the
end of this letter. This seems to indicate that the NFS code
gets confused. Also, the shutdowns are not nice after a crash
like this, I often have to use the power switch.
So, has anyone else out there seen disappearing mount points,
and in that case, is there a solution? Does it have anything to
do with my having two processors? I have considered using
amd instead, but it does not go well with Solaris/NIS.
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general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[nfs_sillyrename+220/280]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 40007000 ebx: 00000043 ecx: 06563009 edx: 40007000
esi: 094873d8 edi: 0f23f018 ebp: 0068bb5d esp: 0633eec0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process condor_shadow (pid: 15415, process nr: 153, stackpage=0633e000)
Stack: 00000000 0656300f 0f23f018 0068bb5d 40007000 001880a0 0f23f034
0068bb5d
06563009 00000005 0f22ef00 0656300f 0633ef50 00000005 000041ed
00133686
00000000 00133832 0f22ef00 06563009 00000005 0633ef50 06563009
0656300f
Call Trace: [umsdos_readdir_x+848/916] [put_last_free+34/36]
[write_dquot+86/324] [read_dquot+87/336] [read_dquot+282/336]
[invalidate_dquots+128/140] [register_binfmt+51/72]
[do_divide_error+62/92]
Code: 39 2a 75 1b 8b 5c 24 24 39 5a 10 75 12 8b 74 24 20 8b 7a 0c
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Bengt �hman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Department of Information Technology at Lund Institute of Technology
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