Are you saying they can’t mount the filesystem, or they can’t write to a mounted filesystem? Where does this system get its user information from, if the latter?
-- ____ || \\UTGERS, |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, Newark `' > On Apr 19, 2017, at 12:09, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote: > > Beowulfers, > > I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem for the past two weeks with no > luck. We have a cluster here that runs only one application (although the > details of that application change significantly from run-to-run.). Each node > in the cluster has an NFS export, /local, that can be automounted by every > other node in the cluster as /l/hostname. > > Starting about two weeks ago, when jobs would try to access /l/hostname, they > would get permission denied messages. I tried analyzing this problem by > turning on all NFS/RPC logging with rpcdebug and also using tcpdump while > trying to manually mount one of the remote systems. Both approaches indicated > state file handles were prevent the share from being mounted. > > Since it has been 6-8 weeks since there were any seemingly relevant system > config changes, I suspect it's an application problem (naturally). On the > other hand, the application developers/users insist that they haven't made > any changes, to their code, either. To be honest, there's no significant > evidence indicating either is at fault. Any suggestions on how to debug this > and definitively find the root cause of these stale file handles? > > -- > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf