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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:53:03
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0602261651k3ad5c122y65835eb79a0da9f0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Open Office / NFS write problem by Mark Knecht
1 On 2/26/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems
4 > to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write
5 > any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says:
6 >
7 > Error saving the document Untitled1:
8 > General input/output error while accessing /video/Mark/test1
9 >
10 > The document was started as a new document, hence the 'Untitled1' name
11 > and I gave it the name test1 in the 'Save as...' dialog.
12 >
13 > I do not have this problem when editing from my 32-bit Gentoo
14 > machine. It's only from this AMD64 box.
15 >
16 > Is this a problem that's known already? I find this message in a
17 > few files through Google but I haven't found a clear description of
18 > why it happens or how to fix it.
19 >
20 > Could this be due to using the binary version of Open Office? I'd
21 > hate to have to build it from scratch!
22 >
23 > The NFS drive is mounted at boot time. Here's the command in my fstab file:
24 >
25 > mark@lightning ~ $ cat /etc/fstab | grep video
26 > myth14:/video /video nfs
27 > auto,user,rw,_netdev,noatime,hard,tcp,wsize=32768,rsize=8192,nfsvers=3,async
28 > 0 0
29 > mark@lightning ~ $
30 >
31 > Thanks in advance,
32 > Mark
33 >
34
35 Later in my searches I found this thread at the Open Office site:
36
37 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36634
38
39 Indeed the issue at the bottom - different kernels, etc., may apply.
40
41 Our NFS Server is a MythTV frontend only machine that has a large
42 drive so we exported that drive to the network as extra storage for
43 easy backups and sharing. That machine runs an older kernel:
44
45 myth14 ~ # uname -a
46 Linux myth14 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #2 Tue Aug 2 16:31:31 PDT 2005 i686
47 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
48 myth14 ~ #
49
50 The drive is exported as follows:
51
52 myth14 ~ # cat /etc/exports
53 # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5).
54 /video 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,insecure,async,no_subtree_check)
55 myth14 ~ #
56
57 My local AMD64 machine is running a newer non-Gentoo kernel:
58
59 mark@lightning ~ $ uname -a
60 Linux lightning 2.6.15-rt2 #2 PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 16:13:25 PST 2006
61 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
62 mark@lightning ~ $
63
64 Both machines run the same version of nfs-utils:
65
66 myth14 ~ # emerge -pv nfs-utils
67
68 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
69
70 Calculating dependencies ...done!
71 [ebuild R ] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6 +tcpd 0 kB
72
73 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
74 myth14 ~ #
75
76 lightning ~ # emerge -pv nfs-utils
77
78 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
79
80 Calculating dependencies ...done!
81 [ebuild R ] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6 +tcpd 0 kB
82
83 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
84 lightning ~ #
85
86 Thanks in advance for any ideas you can lend,
87 Mark
88
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