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William.Crocker wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am new to autofs/automounter and need help understanding
> the following messages which I found in /var/log/messages.
> 
> These messages appeared when I tried to
> change directory to /proj/asic on cfl30.
> 
> If I stop and then start autofs it will work for a while
> and then start failing again.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Bill
> 
> ------------- /var/log/messages -------------
> 
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (98).
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: NFS: cannot create RPC transport.
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (98).
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: NFS: cannot create RPC transport.
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14622]: >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
> superblock on 831ntap:/vol/vol0/proj/asic,
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14622]: >>        or too many mounted file systems
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14622]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 
> 831ntap:/vol/vol0/proj/asic on /proj/asic
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14622]: failed to mount /proj/asic
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (98).
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: NFS: cannot create RPC transport.
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (98).
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14624]: >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
> superblock on 831ntap:/vol/vol0/proj/asic,
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 kernel: NFS: cannot create RPC transport.
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14624]: >>        or too many mounted file systems
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14624]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 
> 831ntap:/vol/vol0/proj/asic on /proj/asic
> Oct  9 18:30:31 cfl30 automount[14624]: failed to mount /proj/asic
> 

This occurs when the kernel can't bind to a reserved port (<1024) when
building the rpc transport.  In fact, the rpc code further limits the
available ports to 1-800.   You can try upping the value of
XPRT_MAX_RESVPORT in net/sunrpc/xprt.c to 1024, or higher if your nfs
servers don't care what port the client is connecting from.

This said, this is likely a symptom of one of two things:

- - You are mounting hundreds of nfs filesystems (the current code does
not multiplex rpc connections at all).
- - Automounter ran wild and is mounting filesystems that are not getting
freed/umounnted properly.

Can you post the output of 'cat /proc/mounts' and 'netstat -a --inet' as
well as versioning information for your kernel and automounter you are
using?

- --
Mike Waychison
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1 (650) 352-5299 voice
1 (416) 202-8336 voice

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