Re: ypserv broken(?) in rhel4u3

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

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:02 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> 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

I filed bug #184405. My logs, once booted, were empty of anything
helpful so maybe you could add to the bug.

tjb
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