Re: expire_indirect errors in the syslog

[Ondrej Valousek <webserv@s3group.cz>]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the quick reply. 2 more questions:
1. Is the "nohide" bug exposed even when using NFSv3 (NFSv3 client
mounting the nohide nfs server export)
2. from the bug #448038 details I can see a patch for this has already
been accepted and will go into RHEL-5. When?

I have already filed a bug regarding the gnome-vfs, but I do not know
whether I should also mention the autofs errors.
I do not need NFSv4 right now - I just wanted to prepare my NFS servers
for v4 - so I introduced the nohide option.
For sake of safety, I have removed this option for now.

Thanks,
Ondrej

Ian Kent wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:46 +0100, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am seeing quite lot of following messages in the syslog:
>> Oct 21 02:17:05 ara automount[3181]: expire_indirect: fstat failed: Bad
>> file descriptor
>>
>> On RHEL-5.2, last updates, autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.88.
>> I have seen some discussion on the net (bug #448038) regarding this
>> error and what is common is, that my  NFS server is using the "nohide"
>> option.
>>
>> Question - is this bug dangerous or not? Is there any resolution to
>> this? Recently I have experienced our logon server instability (Gnome
>> session frozen) due to a problem with gnome-vfs so I do not know if this
>> is related....
>>     
>
> Ummm .. it could be but should only be an issue when related to the
> "nohide" handling.
>
> Log a bug and get hold of rev 101 and see how things go.
>
> Ian
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