topic Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages in Operating System - Linux

erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Unix Administrator_5 — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:35:08 GMT

I updated the nfs-utils package to
nfs-utils-1.0.6-33EL
and the kernel to
2.4.21-27.0.2 on a RHEL 3.0 AS system last night.

I have started getting the following in
my messages file:

Mar 2 20:00:29 han rpc.statd[13712]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from han.us.glenraven.com for ......

It doesnt appear to be causing any significant problems but I'm not sure.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:12:09 GMT

I found this entry:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1190.html

Hope it helps

alex

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Unix Administrator_5 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:19:11 GMT

Unfortunately, this is not the case.
permissions are correct.

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:46:32 GMT

Was "statd" run by root?

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Unix Administrator_5 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:36:18 GMT

No, it is run by rpcuser

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:59:49 GMT

Maybe it should run as root.

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Unix Administrator_5 — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:11:15 GMT

it runs as rpcuser on the unpatched systems without a problem. An rpcuser as the appropriate permissions.

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Daniel Neeves — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:56:54 GMT

Hi,

Did you ever work out the cause of this problem ?

Regards
Dan

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Oscar Abundes — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:44:20 GMT

Did you ever sorted out this problem?

I've also been seeing these errors on RHEL 3.0 Update 4 Linux clients. But unlike you, the last change I made to these clients involved telling them to go to another NIS server. The errors involve the old NIS server IP address. Even if I remove the old NIS server IP from /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm, it still re-appears "magically".

The other baffling thing is that if you read the message carefully, it seems to say that the client itself is sending the erroneous SM_UMON request, i.e.:

Dec 5 16:23:36 hcidaldelws72 rpc.statd[2728]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from hcidaldelws72 for

Re: erroneous SM_UNMON request entries in messages

Unix Administrator_5 — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:12:20 GMT

it was a problem witht he nfs-utils package
i uninstalled it and reinstalled the earlier package
the errors went away