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- From: hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: rpc.lockd[167]: get_fd: unable to cvt fh: Stale NFS file handle
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:52:12 GMT
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- We've got a 4D/360 running Irix 4.0.5 as our main NFS server
- (among other things).
-
- I've been getting the error messages:
-
- Jan 26 17:32:51 Uranium rpc.lockd[167]: get_fd: unable to cvt fh: Stale NFS file handle
- Jan 26 17:33:51 Uranium last message repeated 29 times
-
- etc., repeated roughly every two minutes for the past five
- days (in /usr/adm/syslog).
-
- I interpret this to mean that somebody's trying to open/read/write
- a file which NFS thinks doesn't exist anymore, and is doing so
- very persistently.
-
- I've checked every workstation that NFS-mounts filesystems from
- Uranium, done "umount -a" and then "mount -a" to try to flush things;
- likewise I've killed (well, in a friendly fashion...) every user
- process on every workstation which might have open files on the
- server; tried "exportfs -ua" / "exportfs -a" on the server; all to no
- avail. I've rebooted the GatorBox which handles AppleShare-NFS
- translation for us, also with no effect.
-
- I've played with netstat and nfsstat, both on the server and on those
- clients which support them, but haven't discovered anything useful.
- I just got a copy of EtherPeek for my Mac - of course with no
- documentation - but I don't see anything obvious in the traffic to/from
- the server (of course if I knew what to look for it might be more
- obvious...).
-
- I'm about ready to reboot everything, but I'd like to know what's
- causing this first.
-
- So, can anyone tell me how to determine which machine/process is
- causing this? I'm setting up EtherPeek to capture traffic from
- 3 - 4 AM; what should i be looking for?
-
- --
- Kurt Hillig
- Dept. of Chemistry I always tell the khillig@umich.edu
- University of Michigan absolute truth Telephone (313)747-2867
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 as I see it. hillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu
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