Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu!srp From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: rpc.{statd,lockd} problems Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 00:11:11 GMT Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 37 I am having problems with statd and lockd in a local network of SGIs (4D'/20G running 3.3.1). There are also sun sparcs on the same local net. Without running rpc.statd and rpc.lockd everything is fine. I've narrowed it down to this: Two hosts running both statd and lockd (checked registration with rpcinfo). The /usr/mail direcory is on host A, I am on host B (no MX records in the nameserver entry). /usr/mail is NFS mounted onto host B. I send mail to myself on host B. I don't get it. "mail" process exists but isn't going anywhere (appear stuck). There's a lock file for me (srp.lock) in the mail directory. On host B (babar) the SYSLOG says: Sep 27 16:21:21 babar unix: lock-manager: RPC error: Can't decode result On host A (celeste) the SYSLOG repeats until process death: Sep 27 17:03:45 celeste rpc.lockd[3673]: cannot contact local statd Sep 27 17:03:45 celeste rpc.lockd[3673]: req discard due to status monitor problem (rpc.statd is indeed running on this host and is rpc registered) Has anyone else experienced this sort of a problem? Can anyone provide a clue? Thanks for your help. - Scott -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet