[pme@devphil.com: Bug#239158: Strange exportfs problems, fantastically unhelpful error message]

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>]

This Debian bug report includes an exportfs problem which I suspect is
due to one export tree under the other, and an error message complaint
which I think is justified....

----- Forwarded message from Phil Edwards <pme@devphil.com> -----

Subject: Bug#239158: Strange exportfs problems, fantastically unhelpful error message
From: Phil Edwards <pme@devphil.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:37:43 -0500

Package: nfs-kernel-server
Version: 1:1.0.6-1
Severity: normal

    [~]# cat /etc/exports
    /usr/local      fenric(ro,async) hreidmar(ro,async)
    /home           fenric(rw,sync) hreidmar(rw,sync)
    [~]# exportfs -v -r
    exporting hreidmar:/usr/local
    exporting fenric:/usr/local
    exporting hreidmar:/home
    exporting fenric:/home
    exporting hreidmar:/usr/local to kernel
    hreidmar:/usr/local: Invalid argument
    exporting fenric:/usr/local to kernel
    fenric:/usr/local: Invalid argument
    reexporting hreidmar:/home to kernel
    reexporting fenric:/home to kernel
    [~]#

I have no idea why the export fails.  If either line is commented, then
the export succeeds; presumably that's strong evidence of /something/,
but I don't know the nfs-kernel-server code at all and so can't say what.

My real complaint is that "Invalid argument" doesn't tell me a damn thing,
so I have no idea what to try next.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux fenric 2.4.22-fenric3 #1 SMP Sun Oct 12 00:45:53 EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages nfs-kernel-server depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.7        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  nfs-common                  1:1.0.6-1    NFS support files common to client
ii  sysvinit                    2.85-9       System-V like init.

-- debconf information:
  nfs-kernel-server/sync-default: 
  nfs-kernel-server/tcpwrappers-mountd: 




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"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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