Re: lockd: couldn't create RPC handle for (host)

[Ryan Richter]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:49:05PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:55 -0500, Ryan Richter wrote:
> > Hi, nfs locking stopped working on my file server running 2.6.15-rc5
> > today.  All clients that try locking operations hang, and I get the
> > message from the server:
> > 
> > lockd: couldn't create RPC handle for w.x.y.z
> 
> Points either to a client which is not responding to callbacks, or an
> OOM situation on the server.
> 
> Does 'rpcinfo -u w.x.y.z 100021' work from the server?

No.

$ rpcinfo -u jacquere 100021
rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
program 100021 version 0 is not available
zsh: exit 1     rpcinfo -u jacquere 100021

So I see now lockd is not present on the client. But...

$ rpcinfo -p jacquere
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100021    1   udp  32768  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp  32768  nlockmgr
    100021    4   udp  32768  nlockmgr
    100024    1   udp    867  status
    100024    1   tcp    870  status

So what does that mean?

> > Also, the lockd process is unkillable, it looks like I'll have to
> > reboot.
> 
> lockd cannot be killed as long as you have active nfsd threads or active
> nfs client partitions. That is by design.

OK, that's good to know.

Thanks,
-ryan
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