topic Re: lockd cannot talk to statd?? in Operating System - HP-UX

lockd cannot talk to statd??

Tapani Tarvainen — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:49:01 GMT

What could be the cause when file locking over NFS fails and rpc.lockd
(on the NFS server) complains that

"Cannot contact status monitor!!"

rpc.statd is running, it in turn complains that

"statd cannot talk to statd at ..."

Everything else seems to be working normally, NFS mounts succeed and files can be read and written but not locked. On the client side I see no error messages other than individual programs hanging or complaining
"No locks available".

This is under HP-UX 11.11.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Shahul — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 05:51:08 GMT

Hi

Please check up whether rpc.lockd and rpc.statd daemons are running or not by issuing these commands.

#ps -ef | grep statd
#ps -ef | grep lockd

If it is not running please restart those.

#/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
#/usr/sbin/rpc.statd

Best of luck

Shahul

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Tapani Tarvainen — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:54:49 GMT

rpc.lockd and rpc.statd are running (and continue logging error messages). I already tried stopping and restarting them, even tried rebooting - they come up as they should but don't work (can't talk to each other, apparently).

Any other ideas?

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Hartmut Lang — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:55:22 GMT

Check your Patch-Status:
rpc.lockd was patched with PHNE_22878 and PHNE_23502.
I had a NFS-locking problem which was solved after installing PHNE_22878.

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Tapani Tarvainen — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:07:07 GMT

I have PHNE_23502 installed
(I believe it was part of June Gold Bundle). Any other ideas?

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Todd Morgan — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:34:23 GMT

You can try restarting lockd statd with the following steps.
ps -aef |grep lockd
ps -aef |grep statd
kill theses processes
1) cd /var/statmon/sm
ls This will show hostnames that are having the problem also ls /var/statmon/sm.bak this also will show hostnames
You will need to remove the hostnames thats having the problem
from theses directories stated above
rm xx xx being the hostname to remove
then restart lockd statd
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd &
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd &
good luck, Todd

Re: lockd cannot talk to statd??

Tapani Tarvainen — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:59:22 GMT

Resolved! Removing /var/statmon/sm and restarting the daemons made the problem go away.

Phew! :-)