Re: ypserv broken(?) in rhel4u3

["Thomas J. Baker" <tjb unh edu>]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 00:45 -0600, Daryl Herzmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated my NIS server to el4u3 this evening and yp clients prompty 
> started to complain:
> 
> do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> 
> The NIS server started dumping these messsages
> 
> Mar  8 00:23:16 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-1)!
> ....
> Mar  8 00:24:12 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-13)!
> Mar  8 00:24:14 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-14)!
> ....
> 
> This message appears to generated from a patch that went into the 
> el4u3 update....
> 
> 
> I manually downgraded to ypserv-2.13-5  and everything seems to be working 
> again.
> 
> Any ideas what is up?
> 
> thanks,
>    daryl
> 
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I experienced the same problem although I didn't get to wait to see the
error messages. System hung for several minutes on autofs and then on
nfs quotas even though ypserv and ypbind started fine. Booting single
user and downgrading ypserv made everything happy again.

Another problem I saw was booting with a serial console enabled and
having the kernel hang after 'freeing kernel memory'. 

tjb
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