Re: RPC call returned error 111

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>On My diskless Workstation I try to mount a NFS partition from my Boot-Host
>with RedHat 6.0 
>and I get the following Errors:
>
>             loopback kernel: lock-up: np pid, 3 users??
>             loopback kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
>             loopback kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued
>             loopback kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
>             loopback kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
>             loopback kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued
>             loopback kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
>             loopback kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
>             loopback kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued
>             loopback kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
>
>But  nevertheless I can access the mounted partition on my diskless
>Workstation
>and it seems to be all OK.
>Can I therefore ignore the error messages!! 
>The only inconvenience is that until the partition is mounted it takes a lot
>of time.

I have seen it now and then, even on diskfull machines, e.g. during RH6.0
install via NFS.  It seems be more likely to happen when the server
is weaker than the client.  This seems to be a weakness of the Linux
NFS implementation.  Try updating the NFS software from recent releases
by HJ Lu. Sorry don't have a URL but you should be able to find it by
searching Linux kernel archives.
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