Re: ISSUE: 2.2.0-pre6 NFS client problems

Peter Benie (pjb1008@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:35:32 +0000


Fred Richardson writes ("Re: ISSUE: 2.2.0-pre6 NFS client problems "):
> I'm still seeing these messages:
>
> kernel: nfs_stat_to_errno: bad nfs status return value: 116
>
> and I'm using the new knfsd-981204 package. Note that I'm getting
> this message as an NFS client only. Typically I get this message and
> a mount fails. Could this be a problem with am-utils-6.0? I don't
> think I can use autofs unless it can use the NIS map stuff.

I regularly see that error message with a Linux 2.0 client running amd
mounting things from a Solaris NFS server.

errno==116 isn't documented as an error on Solaris but on Linux it's
ESTALE - it's bound to be an bug in amd (or am-utils).

Peter

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