Hi Connie,

 1. 2.6.18-348.3.1.el5PAE
 2. i686
 3. Both are SL 6.3 running 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64
 4. Both are 1:1.2.3-26.el6 (x86_64)
 5. Both are x86_64

Also, thank you for the additional link with more information on the bug.

*Evan Sather*
Linux System Administrator
High Energy Physics
Argonne National Laboratory

On 03/28/2013 01:42 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Evan Sather wrote:
>
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>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> We're experiencing NFS-related problems after viewing home directories
>> on SL6 desktops.  SL5 clients do not experience this problem.  The NFS
>> server is a SL5 machine.
>>
>> One of our desktops outputs this:
>>
>>    [user@host1 ~]$ ls -ltr |tail
>>    ls: reading directory .: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>> Another of our desktops outputs this:
>>
>>    [user@host2 ~]$ ls -l
>>    ls: reading directory .: Too many levels of symbolic links
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this or a similar issue?  Does anyone have any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> --=20
>> *Evan Sather*
>> Linux System Administrator
>> High Energy Physics
>> Argonne National Laboratory
>>
>>
>
> Evan,
>
> We are trying to pin down which versions of the client software have
> this issue.  We know that the server side changed via a bug fix in SL
> 5.9 via the 2.6.18-348 kernels.  We are trying to figure out a way to
> predict the issue on the client side.  So
>
>    What kernel version do you have on the server?
>    What arch is the server?
>
>    What kernel version is on the client?
>    What are the versions of nfs-utils* ?
>    What arch is the client?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Connie Sieh

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