Re: portmap problems with 2.5.4-pre5

Dave Jones
2002-02-13T18:29:24Z

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:20:34AM +0200, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> I tried to mount an NFS filesystem and had mount stuck in the D state for
> quite a while (minutes), this was also in my logs.
>
> Jan 1 02:06:00 mondecino kernel: portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
> Jan 1 02:06:00 mondecino kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5
> Jan 1 02:07:40 mondecino kernel: portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
>
> Eventually it did mount, but i've never had this error before on that box
> (i use the box daily and do that mount more than 5 times a day). I've been
> using 2.5 on that box since 2.5.0. I seem to be able to reproduce it, so
> i'll leave the box running in case anyone wants to try anything.

Richard Henderson mentioned it yesterday in the Re: thread_info implementation
thread. (msgid: 20020211154917.A19367@are.twiddle.net). I've also seen
it recently (circa .4pre3), then it went away, and now I have a box thats also
doing it repeatedly.

afaik, no-one else has looked at it in detail yet (or seen it?)

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