[SunHELP] rpc.lockd fails

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:28:00AM -0700, Naresh Narang wrote:
> Hi
> 
>    I mount a shared solaris partition on linux client. On the linux client,
> it works all  right. The rpc.statd is able to run on linux (kernel 2.4) but
> rpc.lockd fails with the message "Invalid argument". The user has not had
> any file corruption yet but is there a solution to it?

There might be.  Who knows?  Try running strace on rpc.lockd
on the Linux client for a start.  It's probably failing when
a process using the NFS mount calls fcntl(2) or ictl(2) on one
of the files in that fcntl(2) or ioctl(2) on one of the files
in that filesystem.