Bug#184157: libc6: Locking problems over NFS
At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:33:05 +0100,
Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
> OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 10 mars 2003, vers 17:16,
> GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> disait:
>
> >> > Which machine did you upgrade? NFS server? NFS client?
> >>
> >> NFS client.
>
> > Interesting behavior. NFS client uses lockd to contact NFS server's
> > lock manager as kernel thread. On the other hand glibc is on the
> > userland, and issues lock funtion into kernel. So I wonder why
> > upgrading libc6 causes such problem. It's hard to make nfs bad with
> > upgrading glibc...
>
> I thought that glibc was the best option for a general breakage of
> userland apps, but you are right, there was an upgrade of NFS the same
> day in testing. So this bug should be reallocated to nfs package ?
Well, we don't give positive proof of nfs related package that is
really guilty. But I think the nfs package maintainer knows about
the nfs specific bugs. Please reassign this bug to your upgraded
nfs packages.
Regards,
-- gotom
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