Re: Advise on: panic - Attempting to free lock with active block list

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust_at_fys.uio.no)
Date: 01/22/05

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    To: Stuart Sheldon <stu@actusa.net>
    Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:05:41 -0500
    
    

    fr den 21.01.2005 Klokka 18:34 (-0800) skreiv Stuart Sheldon:

    > I had the same panic and screen error with a 2.6.9 PIII SMP system
    > acting as an NFS client. This was after downgrading from a 2.6.10 kernel
    > that was panic'ing in the same way. I reverted to 2.6.8 but left the
    > Server (also a PIII SMP system) running 2.6.9. This occurred during
    > moderate to heavy NFS activity. The patch referenced in
    > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/1237.html appeared to
    > resolve the panic with 2.6.10, but I was having strange things happen,

    That patch is already in 2.6.11-rc2.

    > like failing to release file locks when the client reboots. This is a
    > production system and needs to be available for users. I am currently
    > trying to piece together another smp box to test with. I will post more
    > if I can duplicate the problem on demand.

    Failing to release file locks when the client reboots is not an NFS
    client problem: that is handled entirely by the rpc.statd daemons and
    the server. What kernel are you using on the server, and which version
    of nfs-utils?

    Cheers,
      Trond

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