Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
You can get authentication failure if the user's home is on a NFS which is failing to re-mount. The stale NFS handle usually means the NFS server changed fsid of the exported volume after its reboot. This usually happens if you are exporting a LVM partition via NFS. The workaround is to specify fsid of the exported volume manually in /etc/exports HTH, Ondrej On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, george he wrote: Hello, My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. The server was accidentally down and rebooted. But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS file handle". Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos 6.3, too. Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away instead of rebooting the clients? Thanks, George ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
What nfs version are you using? And if 4, do you use kerberos? We are using mostly nfs 3 still, and those nfs mounts just reconnect by themselves up to a few minutes after the nfs server is back online. Regards, Siggi On 09/12/2012 10:44 PM, george he wrote: I think it's about half an hour. Any ideas about the authentication failsure thing? Thanks, George *From:* Sigbjorn Lie *To:* freeipa-users@redhat.com *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:53 PM *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, george he wrote: Hello, My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. The server was accidentally down and rebooted. But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS file handle". Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos 6.3, too. Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away instead of rebooting the clients? Thanks, George Just wait and it reconnects a while after the nfs server becomes available again. How long have you waited before rebooting? Regards, Siggi ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com <mailto:Freeipa-users@redhat.com> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
I think it's about half an hour. Any ideas about the authentication failsure thing? Thanks, George > > From: Sigbjorn Lie >To: freeipa-users@redhat.com >Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:53 PM >Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle > > >On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, george he wrote: > >Hello, >>My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. >>The server was accidentally down and rebooted. >>But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on >>through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. >>On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS >>file handle". >>Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos >>6.3, too. >> >>Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away >>instead of rebooting the clients? >> >>Thanks, >>George >> >Just wait and it reconnects a while after the nfs server becomes available again. > >How long have you waited before rebooting? > > >Regards, >Siggi > > >___ >Freeipa-users mailing list >Freeipa-users@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > >___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
I tried umount but without -l, it said drive busy. Next time I will try with -l. Thanks, George > > From: Natxo Asenjo >To: "freeipa-users@redhat.com" >Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle > > >On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:26 PM, george he wrote: > >Hello, >>My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. > >try to separate those roles if you can. You can use vm's, it'll work great. > > >The server was accidentally down and rebooted. >>But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on >>through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. >>On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS >>file handle". >>Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos >>6.3, too. >> >>Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away >>instead of rebooting the clients? >> > >you could try umounting the stale mount points in the clients with the -l >switch (lazy). It works most of the time, sometimes rebooting or resetting is >necessary. Do not change dir to the mount point because then your client will >not respond :-) > >-- >natxo > >___ >Freeipa-users mailing list >Freeipa-users@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > >___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
On 09/12/2012 08:26 PM, george he wrote: Hello, My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. The server was accidentally down and rebooted. But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS file handle". Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos 6.3, too. Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away instead of rebooting the clients? Thanks, George Just wait and it reconnects a while after the nfs server becomes available again. How long have you waited before rebooting? Regards, Siggi ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
Re: [Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:26 PM, george he wrote: > Hello, > My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. > try to separate those roles if you can. You can use vm's, it'll work great. > The server was accidentally down and rebooted. > But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log > on through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. > On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale > NFS file handle". > Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running > centos 6.3, too. > Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems > away instead of rebooting the clients? > you could try umounting the stale mount points in the clients with the -l switch (lazy). It works most of the time, sometimes rebooting or resetting is necessary. Do not change dir to the mount point because then your client will not respond :-) -- natxo ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
[Freeipa-users] Stale NFS file handle
Hello, My ipa server and my nfs server are the same machine running centos 6.3. The server was accidentally down and rebooted. But then I got "authentication failsure" on some clients when tried to log on through gdm, and blue screen (no desktop, no panels) on some others. On some clients that I was on before the server was downthe, I got "Stale NFS file handle". Yet on some other clients, everything is fine. All clients are running centos 6.3, too. Is there a way (e.g. restarting some services) to get the above problems away instead of rebooting the clients? Thanks, George ___ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
