Re: svc: bad direction 65536, dropping request

["C. Linus Hicks" <lhicks nc rr com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:41 -0800, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> After Fedora Core 3 boots on my machine (custom kernel) and I get to the login 
> prompt, I get two identical messages:
> 
> svc: bad direction 65536, dropping request
> svc: bad direction 65536, dropping request
> 
> These messages also show up in /var/log/messages.
> 
> I have googled and found several sites--but most of them are in some other 
> language, or they are users asking the same question with no responses given.
> 
> I have even tried grepping through the kernel source looking for that message.
> 
> Although I am running a custom kernel, this has occured in the stock FC3 
> kernel.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea (or theory :) ) where I should start digging next?

That message comes from net/sunrpc/svc.c in the kernel source tree.

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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>