Unlike what other are saying, 2.4.2. is ready for prime time. I am
attaching a mail message I sent this list last week regarding this problem.
Is show how to fix it. The problem is with the script that starts NFS
under the 2.4.X kernels:
When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message
lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I
found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need
to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X
kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line
from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver:
checkproc -n lockd || \
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything
seems to work.
Avi
--On Monday, April 02, 2001 15:20:33 -0700 "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka"
Hi,
<rant mode>
I lost whole Friday trying to upgrade my 7.0 box at work to 7.1. Finally I gave up understanding that the only way to upgrade is do a clean install.
I would appreciate if that were written in BIG letters somewhere on the box.
I did a clean install, chose kernel 2.4 as a default, system booted.
Initially I didn't pay attention to the message:
lockdsvc: Invalid argument exit status of /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd: 1
from rcnfs script.
Later I discovered that I cannot copy a big (19Megs) file to a nfs-mounted disk from Solaris. There were no problems earlier when I was using SuSE 7.0.
I can copy a small file, I can create directories, but as soon as I try to copy something big, I receive input/output error.
I installed then 2.4.2 kernel form SuSE, and nfsutils-0.2.1-20. Nothing changed, same hanging and error while copying big file over nfs.
Is this a feature of 7.1 with 2.4.2 kernel that NFS should not work?
-Kastus
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