24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
2:22 a.m.
On Wednesday 23 September 2015 11:28:53 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Define "server" please Timothy. I am under the impression that any
machine with an /etc/exports file is the "server" at that instant.
On GO704:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 21 15:24 home
On lathe:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 8 09:16 home
On shop:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 19 10:31 home
Which might be a clue, 2 3's on machines that work, and a 5, plus a shorter line
format on the machine that doesn't. All installed from the same dvd image.
Greetings;
I have a weird problem in that I seem to be able to access the
remote machine, except for the most important directory on it,
/home. An ls /net/machine/home
ls: cannot access /net/shop/home: Stale NFS file handle
Expected this
sudo ls /net/shop/root
permission denied
But every other actually exists on the drive directory is ls'able.
I've restarted all the nfs related stuff, everything but rebooted
this machine.
Subject says it all. I need to find the experts.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Aside from the usual cricket havens (kernel mailing lists, where no
one seems able to answer your questions ;-)) you might try the Arch
Linux boards of all places. There are a lot of knowledgeable people
there, and if you can distill the issue down enough you might get by
even though you are using a different distro. :-)
That said, stale handle normally means the client has been
disconnected from the server without knowing why; since you can access
other directories on that server I'd be looking at:
1.) permissions on the server side 2.) Stale / broken portmapper / RPC services
Which I can force reinstall...
3.) Any firewalls between the two boxes, possibly
blocking only
certain ports
None.
If it isn't any of the easy things like that
you're going to have to
use Wireshark and get packet traces.
Tim
Twasn't installed, is now, gave me hell for running it as root (sudo) but won't
trace eth0, no perms, if I don't. I let it capture about 500 packets including a
couple directory listings on "shop", but even though I expanded every
interchange between here and shop, that isn't a thing there to identify that fact that
I am trying to do, or just did, a directory listing. So I can't connect what I'm
seeing in the capture compared to what I typed and received a response to in a different
workspace/terminal.
IOW, I am lost. BTDT, several times now. ;-)
I have to assume the man page will tell me what to do, so I'll see if I can suss it
out.
A query on the debian list made last night has so far been ignored. And I am not subbed
to the arch list, but it sounds like I should be.
Thank you Timothy.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>