Re: rpc.mountd --manage-gids breaks on UID differences

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:43:33PM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Quoting J. Bruce Fields (bfields@fieldses.org):
> 
> > > Disabling '--manage-gids' and remouting, restarting or rebooting
> > > completely fixes the problem. Reintroducing '--manage-gids' breaks it
> > > again.
> > Just from those symptoms it sounds to me like rpc.mountd isn't
> > responding to upcalls when asked about a uid for which there's no
> > account on the server.  It should be returning a negative response
> > immediately.
> 
> Something like that sounds right. Aparently the client is waiting for
> the server to respond, that's what i can tell from the debug logs[1]
> timestamped 14243124.709876 through 14243184.647892. Which eventually
> leads to the kernel logging the 'not responding' message at
> 14243306.507319.
> 
> [1] http://www.freshdot.net/tmp/client-broken-syslog
> 
> > (I assume your server isn't using ldap or nis or something that could
> > cause lookups of a uid to take a long time?)
> 
> Correct. My client and server are using UNIX auth from shadow files.
> 
> The timeframe described above matches the lines from the beginning up to
> 3732517.859721 in the server debug log[2]. I'd have to dig in the kernel
> code to find out what lines 3732513.221898 through 3732513.221913
> exactly tell me. Is anyone on this list an RPC-code ninja?

I don't think there's anything interesting in there.

If you do:

	date +%s >/proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/flush
	strace -e trace=read,write -s4096 -p`pidof rpc.mountd` 

then do whatever you do the client to reproduce the problem, the
resulting strace output might be interesting.

I can't reproduce the problem with nfs-utils from karmic
(1:1.1.4-1ubuntu1) and a recent kernel.

--b.

> 
> And what exactly is the 'NFSD laundromat service' :)
> 
> [2] http://www.freshdot.net/tmp/server-broken-syslog
> 
> Thanks,
> Sander.
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