[Arm-dev] Weird issue with NFSv4

Tue Mar 19 11:29:07 UTC 2019
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 3/19/19 1:05 PM, Stephan Guilloux wrote:
>
> Le 19/03/2019 à 11:57, Pablo Sebastián Greco a écrit :
>>
>> El 19/3/19 a las 07:47, Stephan Guilloux escribió:
>>> Hi there.
>>>
>>> Strange issue with NFSv4 this morning.
>>> RPI3b+ with kernel 103 and fresh yum update, set up as NFSv4 client.
>>>
>>> Trying to copy a whole folder with a few GB (many .rpm & .tgz and a 
>>> few .img), from NFS mounted source to local filesystem.
>>>     (cd /shared.nfs ; tar c) | (cd /local ; tar x)
>>>
>>> After a while ...
>>> - PING to the RPI works.
>>> - SSH sessions got frozen and login is impossible, even with USB 
>>> keyboard on the RPI.
>>> - Sometimes, I do see some kernel backtrace on the VGA, but not always.
>>> As I have to switch off the RPI, there is nothing left in 
>>> /var/log/message when system is back.
>>>
>>> If I do this copy with full SSH, the copy works perfectly well.
>>>     (ssh xxx "cd /xxx ; tar c") | (cd /local ; tar x)
>>>
>>> I have the feeling that the system hangs often on the same huge 
>>> file, but when I do copy it manually, even in a loop ... nothin 
>>> happens.
>>>
>>> Any idea ?
>>>
>>>
>> Stephan, was 4.14.101 your last "good" kernel?
>> We also have 4.14.103 and yesterday 4.14.106 was released.
> well ...
> saw that this morning, but I'm not sure we were doing these operations 
> in the past.
>
> I can try the 106 this afternoon. I'll keep you posted.

I'd try a different kernel... and also a different SD card. I've seen a 
fair share of oddities that boiled down to being SD card issues.