rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) (11/29/90)
I use PC-NFS 3.01 with WP 5.1 since about 1 year without major problem with a Sun 3/60 server running 4.0. I used to mount the drive with the "/sh" option to enable locking. Last week-end, we upgraded to SunOS 4.1, and since then I have lots of problem with file access. At first, some files looked to WP 5.1 as read only. I removed the "/sh" option of the mount and that seems to correct the problem. But today, I got an "access denied" when saving a file. After 2 minutes of "beep" I was able to save the text to a local drive (even to the network drive) using another name. In the meantime, I lost the content of the subdocument that formed the original file because they have 0 byte length. Do this seems familiar to somebody? Real Page rpage!matrox
pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov28.220721.6777@pandora.matrox.com> rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) writes: >I use PC-NFS 3.01 with WP 5.1 since about 1 year without major problem >with a Sun 3/60 server running 4.0. > >I used to mount the drive with the "/sh" option to enable locking. > >Last week-end, we upgraded to SunOS 4.1, and since then I have lots of >problem with file access. > Wasn't there some bug fix to rpc.lockd for 4.1? I recall fixing a routine that somewhere that wasn't actively returning a value. This was alright under 4.0, but I was told it would bomb under 4.1. I can't recall which program it was now. It was either lockd, pcnfsd or popd. Is there not also an upgraded version of lockd that was sent over the net a short while back? Eric Pilger Systems Programmer NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
fbraab@leuze.UUCP (Fritz B. Raab) (12/02/90)
rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) writes: >I use PC-NFS 3.01 with WP 5.1 since about 1 year without major problem >with a Sun 3/60 server running 4.0. >I used to mount the drive with the "/sh" option to enable locking. >Last week-end, we upgraded to SunOS 4.1, and since then I have lots of >problem with file access. We had more often than once problems with the rpc.lockd. I suggest to use the old version of rpc.lockd, where you had no problems. We have similar effects with PC-CAD software on SunOS 4.0.3. When I tried to upgrade 4.0.3 with a rpc.lockd patch I got read-only and sharing problems too. The use of /sh option means that you use the lockd for dealing with multiple access to a file. If you don't use /sh you will get problems if more than one process wants to access your file at once. But don't use /ms. When your server dies and comes up again, nobody will be ables to save any file anymore, most PC - programs hang under that condition, they will have to reboot, although a unmount and remount would be sufficiant. Regards, Fritz -- (-% Fritz B. Raab # email: fbraab@leuze-owen.de %-) (-% Leuze electronic, Abt. TDV # voice: +49 7021 573185 fax: 573200 %-) (-% In der Braike 1 # %-) (-% D7311 Owen / Teck W.Germany # Tomorrow today is already yesterday! %-)
rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) (12/04/90)
We got the patch 100075-05 from Sun, and I still have problem. I do not use the /sh option anymore. I tried to load the file and immediately saved it, it worked, but after a some edition, I can't save it any more. I get plenty of beep (normaly, I reboot), the error message is ACCESS DENIED and the files are truncated to 0 bytes. My next move is to move the files to my local drives and forget about the network drive... Real Page rpage!matrox.com
rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) (12/04/90)
I finally found the culprit ! When I move my files to a local drive, I experienced the save symptoms ERROR: Access Denied. I remove the PC-NFS drivers, reboot and still the same problem. It was WP 5.1 that has a bug that showed up after editing a table. Finally I was able to make the edit and save the file by using a different method to do the change on the table. When I have more time, I will try to use the /sh option on the network drive to see if the [read only] problem reappear with the Sun Patch. Real Page rpage!matrox.com