Re: Error: state manager encountered RPCSEC_GSS session expired against NFSv4 server

[Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:03 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:42 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On 03/16/2012 01:36 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > > The problem is that if the client doesn't have a machine cred, then you
> > > end up taking a random user credential that may not currently be holding
> > > any OPEN files. In that case too the RENEW will fail.
> > 
> > So if i'm understanding this right:
> > 
> > Sachin's proposal fails when the machine has no machine creds.
> > 
> > The current implementation fails when the logged-in user's credentials 
> > are expired.
> > 
> > Can the NFS client's logic test for those different cases, use the 
> > appropriate creds for RENEW in their difference, and reduce the failure 
> > case to their intersection?
> 
> Simpler solution: add the call to get machine creds to the existing
> get_renew_creds function.

Hello Trond, 

I've sent a patch to the Mailing list using your suggestion above. 

Thanks
Sachin Prabhu