Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!amys From: amys@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Amy Swanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: rpc.{statd,lockd} problems Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 20:11:34 GMT References: <1990Oct3.034508.6996@cs.umn.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 29 slevy@poincare.geom.umn.edu (Stuart Levy) writes: >Yes, we did see something similar. Upon enabling rpc.{statd/lockd} on our SGI >3.3 NFS clients, we found that mail (actually /usr/bsd/Mail) would hang when we >tried to exit after reading mail. Our mail directory is shared as yours is; >the file server in our case is a Sun running 4.0.3. >The SGI technical support person I talked to didn't seem to know about this >problem; he tried to get me to check sendmail.cf and so forth, not too helpful. >I couldn't tell what was causing this, and we didn't desperately need NFS >file locking, so turned it off. Mail continued to hang even after the >statd/lockd daemons were killed, but rebooting the client seemed to >clear things up. >So you're not alone but I have no help to offer. > Stuart Levy, Geometry Group, University of Minnesota > slevy@geom.umn.edu We have been told by our SGI office that this problem will be fixed in the next maintenance tape release - 3.3.2? - which is supposed to be out this month. Can anyone at SGI confirm this? We are delaying the installation of 3.3 until this tape is released as many of the users depend on NFS mounted mail partitions for their email use. Amy amys@ncsa.uiuc.edu