Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:44:54AM -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: ... I'm frustrated; you're frustrated, and meaningful progress ... ... is evasive as the issue does not want to go away. Here is what I got this morning from one of our sysadmins. Observe how he carefully reinstalls the same bum

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-23 Thread Pat Riehecky
Ordinarily I try and avoid entering these sorts of chains on the list. I'm frustrated; you're frustrated, and meaningful progress, while often born out of frustration, is often impolite in the process. So forgive me if I sound a bit annoyed, but this nfs-utils problem has been stuck in my

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-23 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:44:54AM -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: ... So forgive me if I sound a bit annoyed, but this nfs-utils problem has been stuck in my side for a while now. ... Pat, don't worry about it too much. You guys do a good job, and one of these things will happen once in a while no

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-23 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 01/23/2012 10:55 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:44:54AM -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: ... So forgive me if I sound a bit annoyed, but this nfs-utils problem has been stuck in my side for a while now. ... Pat, don't worry about it too much. You guys do a good job,

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-22 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/21/2012 11:01 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Chris Schanzle schan...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1 machines are affected (not both machines, both dozens

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-21 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:11:36PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: Just a few comments to be taken as constructive feedback... On 21/01/2012 1:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: So every SL6.1 machine has to be repaired manually (yum reinstall nfs-utils). This should be easily scriptable

nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-20 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1 machines are affected (not both machines, both dozens of machines, 24 is the last count). The / directory is filling up with 1 Mbyte core files from umount.nfs at the rate of about 3

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-20 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:51:17PM -0800, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: Now off to yum downgrade nfs-utils on every SL6.1 machine. The correct command is: yum downgrade nfs-utils-1.2.3-15.el6 It will not mess up SL6.1 machines that already have the correct package and it will not mess up

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Haigh
Just a few comments to be taken as constructive feedback... On 21/01/2012 1:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: The first bum nfs-utils package was issued around December 6th. Then a fixed package was issued around December 14th with exactly the same name to better defeat the nightly yum

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1 machines are affected (not both machines, both dozens of machines, 24 is the last count). The / directory is filling up with 1 Mbyte