[K12OSN] NFS fails to start

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu May 2 13:00:13 UTC 2013


That date error is very suspicious.
Yeah, windowsish solution indeed :-(
Run memtest before the install as a flaky dimm can cause these errors as
well.
On May 2, 2013 1:40 AM, "Kenneth Lundström" <kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sounds like an Windows fix, please reinstall :=) But that is just what I
> decided needs to be done, I emailed the client and will head out to client
> tomorrow morning.
>
> One strange thing I noticed by mistake is the dates on folders.
>
> [root at ltsp tmp]# ll /opt/
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Mar 17  1913 ltsp
>
> LTSP was hardly thought of 1913. I tried to look in different logs but
> can't see any file errors. But I see some folders being dated to 1913.
> Should matter for NFS, but if filesystem is that messed up no wonder NFS
> doesn't work.
>
>
> Kenneth
>
>  Totally strange.
>>
>> I saw a blurb on a Ubuntu page where there was a kernel bug related to
>> ext4 filesystem shared out by NFS. However, even though it showed the same
>> error, it was still mountable from a remote machine.
>>
>> I have a vanilla CentOS 6.4 with kernel 2.6.32-358 I tested the NFS
>> server on with no issues.
>>
>> /etc/exports:
>> /home *(rw,no_root_squash,async)
>>
>> disables NFSv4 in /etc/sysconfig/nfs
>>
>> turned off iptables for the test
>>
>> actually have selinux in enforcing mode
>>
>> mounted remotely with no issues or errors on starting nfs service.
>>
>> At this point, I think there's a problem with the hard drive. The top
>> level inode collections are screwed up and NFS can't "do it's thing"
>> because it can't read the filesystem metadata.
>>
>> I would run 'badblocks' on the drive and reinstall (lousy answer and bad
>> sysadmin solution but short of running strace on everything it may be the
>> fastest way to working) with a fresh drive format.
>>
>>
>>
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