problem: NFS Hangs - selinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

Tim Waugh wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:37:07PM -0400, TGS wrote:
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>>On all the machines that we have the latest on, we basically cannot use the
>>machines since NFS hangs. I read elsewhere on a post that this most likely
>>due to selinux. Now we have both the selinux=0 for the kernel and
>>/etc/sysconfig/selinux set with SELINUX=disabled, but it still hangs.
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>>What do I need to do to have NFS work correctly? 
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>I have had success with NFS + SELinux when I start NFS in permissive
>mode (i.e. after 'setenforce 0').  Enforcing mode causes the rpc.*
>processes to busy loop, for me, although things seem to go okay for a
>while (and then fail with I/O errors).
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>setenforce 0
>service nfs start
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Yes NFS Server and SELinux do not play well in the Kernel.  A patch is 
being developed and
hopefully will be upstream soon.

>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120288
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120290
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>Tim.
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