nfs client hanging

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields a écrit :
>> In any case:
>>
>>> rpc.idmapd crashed, its last message occurs at 16:11:28, 12 minutes   
>>> before the trace. It seems to validate the hypothesis than the 
>>> initial  failures comes from there, but doesn't get much information 
>>> about why it  crashed, despite its verbosity level set to 3.
>>
>> Could get a backtrace, core dump, or something?  What are the final
>> messages before the crash?
> The final message is a normal translation action, and nothing else:
> Jul 15 16:11:28 localhost rpc.idmapd[3797]: Client 12: (user) name  
> "root at msr-inria.inria.fr" -> id "0"

Yeah, OK, doesn't look very interesting.

> I'm joining the log excerpt between this last message and the stack  
> trace, if it helps.
>
> I don't have any core dump, given than they are automatically prohibited  
> by standard initscript. Apparently, setting DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT should  
> allow to get one. I'm rebooting the node with this value set.

Thanks; let us know what you're able to figure out.

--b.