[CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird freeze/crash followed by "nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!" syslog messages
James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Wed Jun 6 21:49:04 UTC 2018
Frank Thommen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> since I updated my workstation from CentOS 7.4 to 7.5, Firefox and
> Thunderbird (both 52.8.0, from CentOS repos) regularly freeze (or crash)
> and cannot be restarted afterwards. Trying to start them results in a
> "Bus error (core dumped)" (Firefox) and "Killed" (Thunderbird). The
> system log then shows:
>
> kernel: NFS: nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!
>
> each time I try to start the applications (our homedirectories are
> mounted via NFS4). As far as I can see, no other applications are
> affected. The workstation needs to be rebooted to fix the situation.
>
> Has anyone else seen that or knows how to debug or fix this issue? I
> tried with strace and wireshark w/o finding anything helpful.
I'm not sure what the el7 default for the Firefox
'storage.nfs_filesystem' pref is - but you could try setting it to
'true' to see if that makes a difference ?
James Pearson
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