[Gllug] NFS problem

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:03:34PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to debug/fix an NFS problem.
> 
> The client is an oldish TRU64 unix box, the server a MS Windows 2000 advanced server.
> The system is used for builds - lots of C++.
> 
> The cxx compiler occasionally blows up with:
> 	cxx: Severe: Unable to compress file "./cxx_repository/tru64.g1.com.aokfBa":
>         	  Permission denied
> 	cxx: Info: 1 catastrophic error detected in the compilation of "../../../doc1gensrc/igxmlscanner.cpp".
> 	cxx: Info: Compilation terminated.
> leave it a few minutes and it may work properly. It does seem to fail on some files a
> lot 'in preference' to others.
> 
> It is the randomness that confuses me.
> 
> The NFS mount line is:
> 
> 	borg:/source /export/home/source nfs rw,soft,bg,intr 0 0
> 
> (Borg is the W2K server)
> 
> 
> The MS nature of the file server isn't inherently the problem, there are quite a few
> *nix (inc Linux) boxes that use it without issue. This problem first
> arose a few weeks ago about the time when IP addresses of everything were changed,
> but this may be a red herring.
> 
> 
> Anyone got any pointers ... ?

I've never used TRU64, but have you tried to mount this without the
"soft" option?

In the past that has caused problems on some Linux machines (long time
ago, can't remember the details).


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