On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:23:57PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > No, it's definitely neither in my $PATH nor in my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > ld.so.conf?
No. I would have known if I put it there. It was a share exclusively for
data, no programs, no libraries.
> > So there are some system calls with /mothermole as argument, and then it
>
> Where does /mothermole come from? Did you grep for mothermole
> or /mothermole?
Nope. Those were the last lines of lsof's output before it hang.
> > hangs, as expected. Can I still somehow find out, which processes are
> > waiting?
>
> Usually lsof does the trick, something very odd is going on on this system.
> You could still write your own script reading all the
> links /proc/{proc_ids}/fd. Actually I thought lsof would do the same.
I guess lsof does something like, but I'm not sure. Maybe I'll actually
try grep-ing through /proc/*/fd/, good idea.
> > It is really annoying that a NFS client can be brought into such
> > troubles and there is no sensible way to resolve it.
>
> Well, with recent kernels this shouldn't happen.
I'm running 2.6.16-2 here (on the NFS client).
> Being in a theoretical chemistry group and due to long term
> calculations we often also can't simply reboot a system. In the past 2
> years a reboot of linux clients was usually only required when our
> failover server didn't taker over properly (actually it didn't mount
> properly and then exported the wrong directory, for the clients with
> their / from this server this caused some problems, especially since
> we also enforce the fsid)
It's not really a productive system here, but it just annoys me like
hell. I wouldn't kill me to reboot, but I won't until I am really sure
there is no other way.
Greetings,
Frank
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