Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-04-02 Thread Will Dormann
David wrote: Will Dormann wrote: I guess I could try the "ls" trick on the server to see if that happens to fix anything. Or just go for the 2.6.11.2 kernel as suggested. (Thanks David!) I _think_ filesystem corruption was reported around this problem - I'd upgrade (well, actually, I *did* up

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-31 Thread David
Will Dormann wrote: I guess I could try the "ls" trick on the server to see if that happens to fix anything. Or just go for the 2.6.11.2 kernel as suggested. (Thanks David!) I _think_ filesystem corruption was reported around this problem - I'd upgrade (well, actually, I *did* upgrade!) David

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-31 Thread Will Dormann
Dan Wilga wrote: Are you sure NFS statd and lockd are running on the machine serving the NFS volume? NFS is known for running almost-normally when either of these is off for some reason. rpc.statd is running on the NFS server. I'm not so sure about lockd. "ps aux" lists "[lockd]".That's w

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-31 Thread Dan Wilga
At 9:08 AM +0100 3/31/05, David wrote: I was surprised - I'm not sure how deleting a file twice could cause NFS stale file handles... I agree with David on this. Stale handle errors should only occur if there is a problem at the NFS level. Are you sure NFS statd and lockd are running on the machi

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany (probably solved)

2005-03-31 Thread David
Will Dormann wrote: My NFS server is running 2.6.9 with NFSv3 The filesystem for my store is indeed xfs. In that case... upgrade the kernel to 2.6.11.2 (no later) Now :) There were quite a few issues around that time to do with xfs/nfs. search lkml for "XFS: inode with st_mode == 0" (though that we

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-31 Thread Will Dormann
David wrote: I was surprised - I'm not sure how deleting a file twice could cause NFS stale file handles... I'd suggest the lirc/delete could be a mis-diagnosis on your part Will, I think that this could be more of an NFS problem. Perhaps. I'm still not convinced that it's *not* the problem, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-31 Thread David
Chris Pinkham wrote: Chris Pinkham wrote: Thanks for the good descriptiong. I'll try to simulate here and get a fix into CVS if I can find an issue. I think I may already know what the issue is and how to prevent this. Excellent! Let me know what you find out. I'm currently runnin

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris Pinkham wrote: > > Thanks for the good descriptiong. I'll try to simulate here and get a > > fix into CVS if I can find an issue. I think I may already know what > > the issue is and how to prevent this. > > Excellent! Let me know what you find out. I'm currently running > 0.16, so

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Will Dormann
Chris Pinkham wrote: Thanks for the good descriptiong. I'll try to simulate here and get a fix into CVS if I can find an issue. I think I may already know what the issue is and how to prevent this. Excellent! Let me know what you find out. I'm currently running 0.16, so hopefully it's someth

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Anyway, what I'm thinking is happening is this... > > When I go to delete a recording, there are *two* "Enter" presses > registered in rapid succession. (Due to the flakey joystick). The > first one goes and deletes the file from my NFS store, but mythtv goes > to delete the file a second

[mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Will Dormann
Some time ago I posted a message about a problem with MythTV spewing out "Stale NFS file handle" messages. It seemed to correlate with my upgrade to MythTV 0.17, so I figured that was the cause. After reverting to 0.16, it seemed to be working well, but I recently ran into it a few times. I