Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-01-03 Thread Marc Horowitz
David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from nfs(5): soft If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report an I/O error to the calling program. The default is to continue retrying NFS file operations indefinitely.

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-03-25 Thread Marc Horowitz
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that nfs strategy to retry forever is a documented feature, not a bug. You can override the behaviour by doing a 'soft' mount. If you believe that this bug should remain open, please provide additional information, otherwise I'll close this bug

Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

2006-03-26 Thread Marc Horowitz
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:31:58AM -0500, Marc Horowitz wrote: Do you have a reference to this document? Retrying forever doesn't seem awful (it wouldn't be my preference, but that's ok), but retrying *uninterruptably* seems like it would never

Bug#327432: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32: upgrading from 2.2 kernel deadlocks with libc upgrade

2005-09-09 Thread Marc Horowitz
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32 Version: 2.4.27-9 Severity: important I had an old sparc which was running a 2.2.20 kernel (yes, old) and libc6 2.2.5-11.5. I tried to upgrade it (apt-get install dist-upgrade) and it choked. In particular, the kernel depends on a newer version of libc:

Bug#327432: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32: upgrading from 2.2 kernel deadlocks with libc upgrade

2005-09-09 Thread Marc Horowitz
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Marc Horowitz wrote: I had an old sparc which was running a 2.2.20 kernel (yes, old) and libc6 2.2.5-11.5. I tried to upgrade it (apt-get install dist-upgrade) and it choked. In particular, the kernel depends on a newer version

Bug#328135: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs reading process stuck in disk wait

2005-09-13 Thread Marc Horowitz
Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.11-7 Severity: important cvs D 0008 0 6344 3830 6345 6162 (NOTLB) db6bdd18 0086 db6bdd08 0008 0002 e203cba4 c02edb60 0001 0001 0001 01d2 c013fe43 c02f33a0 c02f2b80 c1805fa0