Bug 17916 – Mozilla does not work on RAID5 over NFS

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Johnny Wezel 2003-03-21 04:48:52 UTC]

Mozilla does not work when $HOME is on a RAID5 array with ReiserFS accessed over
NFS and does not display any clue why it doesn't.

There is a long story about system changes and success: first I had the RAID5
array on SuSE 8.0 Linux where it worked. Then that machine broke down and I had
to move it (along with the SCSI card) to another machine running SuSE Linux 7.2.
There, it didn't work anymore. I reported to Mozilla, and they couldn't help
much. I suspected a file lock error and wrote a small test program to test the
lockf () system call. I failed with error 37 (no locks available).

Then I moved to Gentoo Linux in the hope that the newest version of all
components involved with the problem would do the job.

It still doesn't work, BUT the lock test program now doesn't report any error
anymore.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create RAID5 array on a server
2. Create ReiserFS on that array
3. Move home direcories on that file system
4. Start mozilla on a client machine which accesses the home directories over
NFS on the server

Actual Results:  
Mozilla does not start and does not display any error message


Expected Results:  
Mozilla starts

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2003-03-21 05:16:34 UTC]

tried using strace to check for failing system calls?

[Comment 2 Johnny Wezel 2003-03-21 16:11:59 UTC]

I had another idea. I copied again a freshly begun home directory to the RAID dir, and now Mozilla works. But believe me: i tried this before, and it didn't work!

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-25 19:05:51 UTC]

closing