Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: lockd: couldn't create RPC handle for (host) | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:49:05 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:55 -0500, Ryan Richter wrote: > Hi, nfs locking stopped working on my file server running 2.6.15-rc5 > today. All clients that try locking operations hang, and I get the > message from the server: > > lockd: couldn't create RPC handle for w.x.y.z
Points either to a client which is not responding to callbacks, or an OOM situation on the server.
Does 'rpcinfo -u w.x.y.z 100021' work from the server?
> Also, the lockd process is unkillable, it looks like I'll have to > reboot.
lockd cannot be killed as long as you have active nfsd threads or active nfs client partitions. That is by design.
Cheers, Trond
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