kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 has broken nfs

[Jonathan Berry]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:08:33 +0000, Ian Laurie <iml at zip.com.au> wrote:
> The latest kernel seems to have broken nfs, previous kernel was OK.
> 
> I'm getting this in the log file:
> 
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting lockd (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting lockd (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting nfsd (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for nfsd
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak kernel: lockd: Unknown parameter `'
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak kernel: lockd: Unknown parameter `'
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak kernel: nfsd: Unknown symbol lockd_down
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak kernel: nfsd: Unknown symbol lockd_up
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak kernel: nfsd: Unknown symbol nlmsvc_ops
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak nfsd[25698]: nfssvc: No such device
> Jan 30 10:37:25 zaurak nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed
> Jan 30 10:37:26 zaurak nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
> 
> Anyone got any ideas about this?
> 
> All dmesg says is:
> 
>    lockd: Unknown parameter `'
> 
> This has me baffled.  I can get nfs working by booting the previous kernel
> though.
> 
> Ian

I've seen this recently with the nvidia module.  The fix was to edit
/etc/modprobe.conf and remove the trailing whitespace from the options
line.  If you have been using system-config-network lately, whenever
you save, it rewrites /etc/modprobe.conf and adds a space to the end
of all options lines.  Obviously, some (all?) modules don't parse the
options correctly if there is extra trailing whitespace (which seems
like a bad situation).  Anyway, there is a bugzilla entry on the
system-config-network:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146291

Jonathan