On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:05 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2015 03:29 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:46 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This morning I got "waiting on lockfile foo in /usr/portage/distfiles" >>> "locking not available" from my nfs3 clients when trying to download >>> needed source files. > >>> I don't recall having this problem back in my former nfs3-only days. >>> Maybe I've forgotten something obvious that I did back then? >> >> There used to be an rpc.lockd daemon but lockd's been moved to a >> kernel module for nfsv3 and to nfsd for nfsv4. RHEL 5 has it >> (nfs-utils 1.09) and RHEL 6 doesn't (nfs-utils 1.2) so it must've been >> dropped with v1.1 or v1.2. I don't know when it was dropped in Gentoo >> terms (probably 6-7 years ago). Does this ring a bell? > > Yes, I remember rpc.lockd. > >> Does file locking work for an nfsv3 mount after you re-enable nfsv4 in >> your kernel config? > > Hm. No, I still get the same "No locks available" error. > >> If no, then are you setting static ports for statd and lockd and >> allowing access to these ports with iptables? > > Noooo, that's way above my pay grade :) > > I mentioned earlier in this thread that, when I run this command: > > #mount.nfs a6://usr/portage /usr/portage -o nfsvers=3 > > it hangs indefinitely, but if I hit Ctrl-c and quickly re-run the same > command it succeeds. (I've been trying to measure what "quickly" means > but it seems to vary, seems random, but always less than a minute.)
I now remember you saying earlier. Sorry. I can't think of how or why! Does using "mount -v ..." show different outputs for the failing and successful mounts? > I'm posting this info mainly for the benefit of future googlers because > nfs4 is working well and I don't really *need* nfs3. > > If you're interested in this problem I'd be happy to try any/all debugging > experiments, but otherwise don't spend any more time on it. > > Many thanks for your help, Tom You're welcome, with apologies for the delayed response.
