Has anybody keep on getting the same on dmesg. I'm running RHEL AS 3.0 on proliant DL560 G2, 4way 2Ghz, 12Gb memory. Also running Oracle 9i release 9.2.0.1.0. Occasionally, when I login with my userid I cannot do an `ll` command. It will just hang. `ls` command works. When this happens, I cannot save a vi session or even q! out of it. I have to kill the vi process via the pid. dmesg reports "RPC: buffer allocation failed for task cedb5ca8". When I reboot, everything is okay until a couple of days later, sometimes later the same day. Local userid have no problems. Only automounted userids from NIS. Any ideas?
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RPC: buffer allocation failed for task
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ericbrunson
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Is ll an alias for ls -l? Can you run whatever command it's aliased to? It sounds a lot like a problem I have where I was piping the output of a command to another in an alias and it was hanging the terminal, hella.
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eric,
you're exactly correct. running `ls -l` is the same as `ll`, or viceversa. But either way I run the command it still hangs. I'm leaning on thinking it has something to do with NFS mounted directories or the like. Also the commands are okay if the user is locally defined. ONly NIS userids that are being automounted to the server's /home directory gets the issue. Also when root goes into the /home directory, he hangs the command as well. Note that when these issues occur, I get the above mentioned message in dmesg, "RPC: buffer allocation failed for task...."
Thanks,
JDL2
you're exactly correct. running `ls -l` is the same as `ll`, or viceversa. But either way I run the command it still hangs. I'm leaning on thinking it has something to do with NFS mounted directories or the like. Also the commands are okay if the user is locally defined. ONly NIS userids that are being automounted to the server's /home directory gets the issue. Also when root goes into the /home directory, he hangs the command as well. Note that when these issues occur, I get the above mentioned message in dmesg, "RPC: buffer allocation failed for task...."
Thanks,
JDL2
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