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Re: dpkg-source and NFS; stale NFS file handle



On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:00:15PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:55:31PM +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> > Summary: when using dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot I get a ``stale NFS
> > file handle'' error and the build stops.
> > 
> > I can find this bug with Google, but not in the Debian bug tracking
> > system. I assume I do something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is. I'm
> > new to package development, but the Debian Mentor list could not help me
> > here.
> > 
> > When I build it on local disk, I get a correct .deb-package, without any
> > errors. So it has something to do with the NFS fs. Can anyone help here?
> 
> If you found the bug with google, what did your source say?
> This doesn't sound like Debian's problem. My guess is that it has to do
> with the kernel you're running. I believe Russell King recently
> corrected a problem in the Linux kernel where this was, in fact, a
> spurious error generated by buggy logic in the kernel.
> 
> It might help if you told us what kernel you're using, and perhaps also
You must have gotten half of the message, because what I received looked 
like this: (-> is the quote symbol)

::snip::
->I can find this bug with Google, but not in the Debian bug tracking  
->system. I assume I do something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is. I'm  
->new to package development, but the Debian Mentor list could not help me  
->here.  
->
->When I build it on local disk, I get a correct .deb-package, without any  
->errors. So it has something to do with the NFS fs. Can anyone help here?  
->
->Information about the systems:
->workstation$ mount|grep home
->server:/home on /home type nfs (rw,nolock,addr=192.168.112.11) 
->workstation$ uname -a
->Linux cadmium 2.2.17 #1 SMP Fri Sep 8 09:19:45 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
->
->server$ uname -a
->Linux yellowstone 2.2.17-yellowst #1 Tue Oct 31 10:09:56 CET 2000 i586
->unknown
->server$ /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd --version
->Universal NFS Server 2.2beta47
->
->(Server runs non-kernel-NFSd, 4sure)
-> looked for help in a more appropriate forum (suggestions, anyone?).
::snip::

> Cheers,
> Bill
	--xsdg

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