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?

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> 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
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