I'm running Jaunty 9.04 server and think something similar might have happened to me when I restarted my UFW firewall. I was also running tshark at the time.
So I'm guessing you might be able to reproduce this by locking down your firewall while you have an NFS mount. /var/log/messages: Oct 25 01:07:25 tofu kernel: [2858707.141390] device eth0 left promiscuous mode Oct 25 01:07:26 tofu kernel: [2858708.052401] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Oct 25 01:22:35 tofu -- MARK -- Oct 25 01:23:01 tofu kernel: [2859643.740049] nfs: server orange not responding, still trying Oct 25 01:29:53 tofu exiting on signal 15 Oct 25 01:32:25 tofu syslogd 1.5.0#5ubuntu3: restart. Oct 25 01:32:26 tofu kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.28-15-server /etc/fstab: orange:/var/filez /var/filez nfs rw 0 0 -- Machine freeze on NFSv4 operations (server side) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs