[Bug 258651] Re: nfs4 leaves megabytes of errors in syslog

Fri Nov 18 12:05:25 UTC 2011

Please try to reproduce on a newer release. Sounds like a nfs4 server
bug to me (=kernel).

** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  nfs4 leaves megabytes of errors in syslog

Status in “nfs-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “nfs-utils” package in CentOS:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nfs-common

  I have a little 2-computer network using NFS.
  The client is ubuntu 8.04.1, the server is the current Debian testing
  distribution.

  When I share files with nfs4, the connection sometimes hangs
  so you can do "ls n" (where "n" is a NFS mountpoint) and it
  hangs forever.    It typically runs for tens of minutes with light use
  before it freezes.   When it freezes, the kernel is still running,
  everything is running that does not try to access files mounted
  over NFS.

  I know it's not a server freeze because I can connect
  to the same NFS server, same exported file system from
  another computer, and it'll work  (at least for a while).
  I've seen this both ways:   where Ubuntu freezes, but
  Debian can access itself via NFS and where Debian freezes
  but Ubuntu can access Debian via NFS.

  The equivalent configuration works reliably with NFSv3.

  When it's frozen, my /var/log/syslog on the Ubuntu client
  side rapidly fills up with error messages:

  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.865221] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 1
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.866133] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.866849] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.867614] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 1
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.867995] NFSv4 callback: too many open TCP sockets, consider increasing the number of nfsd threads
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.868003] NFSv4 callback: last TCP connect from 192.168.3.2, port=42971
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.869477] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 1
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.870381] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.871131] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.871874] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 1
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.872880] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 1
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.873780] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.874491] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 10017
  ...
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.971314] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.972318] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.974021] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.975075] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.976335] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.977571] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.978437] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.979118] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.979788] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.980474] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  Aug 16 20:04:47 kitchen kernel: [10854.983996] Error: state recovery failed on NFSv4 server 192.168.3.1 with error 22
  ...

  It's mostly error 22.

  This goes on for thousands and thousands of lines, at the rate of 1000
  lines per second!

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.1
  Release:	8.04
  $ 

  $ apt-cache policy nfs-common
  nfs-common:
    Installed: 1:1.1.2-2ubuntu2.1
    Candidate: 1:1.1.2-2ubuntu2.1
    Version table:
   *** 1:1.1.2-2ubuntu2.1 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:1.1.2-2ubuntu2 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
  $

  Relevant lines from /etc/fstab:  (NFS4 is currently commented out,
  but it was active earlier).

  # desk.local:/gpk /home/gpk/n nfs4	bg,intr		0	0
  desk.local:/export/big/gpk /home/gpk/n nfs	bg,intr		0	3
  # desk.local:/MyDocuments/gpk /home/gpk/MyDocuments nfs4	bg,intr		0	0
  desk.local:/export/big/MyDocuments/gpk /home/gpk/MyDocuments nfs	bg,intr		0	3

  Here's /etc/exports on the server (again, the NFS4 lines are currently commented out,
  but they were active a little while ago):

  # /export/big 192.168.2.2(rw,fsid=0,root_squash,subtree_check) 127.0.0.1(rw,fsid=0,root_squash,subtree_check) 192.168.3.2(rw,fsid=0,root_squash,subtree_check)
  /export/big 192.168.2.2(rw,root_squash,subtree_check) 127.0.0.1(rw,root_squash,subtree_check) 192.168.3.2(rw,root_squash,subtree_check)
  gpk at desk:~$ 

  ssh, web, and ping connections between the two machines work nicely.
  It's a standard wired network, specified in /etc/networks/interfaces .

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