state recovery failed on NFSv4 server with error 2

[Thomas Garner]

Can no one help me debug this?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Garner <thomas536 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Nexenta file server (1.0RC2 --- b80), serving my home
>  directory over nfs4 to several linux machines running Debian.  On my
>  main machine (currently stock debian kernel 2.6.18-6-k7, but also had
>  the same problem under 2.6.23), after anywhere from 3 minutes to
>  several days, its load average will start creeping up as the following
>  messages fill up syslog at 3k per second:
>
>  Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.0.10 with error 2
>
>  Searching around the web has shed little light onto this issue.  While
>  repeatable (mostly via a combination of Firefox and JEdit), I have as
>  of yet to determine a surefire way to get it to start, nor get it to
>  stop.  Tweaking the nfs mount options, I am now able to force umount
>  the nfs mount with some luck, but it puts only the tiniest bandaid on
>  the problem, as normally it will quickly revert into the failed
>  recovery state (but does tend to ward off a hard reboot for a little
>  longer).  It's getting exceptionally frustrating to have to kill X and
>  every process with an open file on the mount, or worse to have to do
>  an emergency sync/remount ro/reboot.
>
>  Looking forward to debugging and resolving,
>  Thomas
>