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Subject: ktrace doesn't work over NFS
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>Number:         6251
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ktrace very broken when logging over NFS
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    peter
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr  8 17:00:01 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 25 11:49:37 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 25 11:50:08 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Evan Champion
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	2.2.6-STABLE as of April 4, 1998.

>Description:

	ktrace writing to a file over NFS plain doesn't work.  The ktrace.out
	is constantly reset to 0 bytes.

	Worse, when I tried ktrace -C then ktrace -p again (still logging
	over NFS), the machine panic'd.  I don't have the panic output.

	cd'ing /tmp first (local filesystem) then ktracing does the right
	thing.

>How-To-Repeat:

	do ktrace with current directory on NFS mount.

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->peter 
Responsible-Changed-By: peter 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Apr 25 22:11:39 PDT 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take this.. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: peter 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 25 11:49:37 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Retested and appears to be fixed in 4.x and above. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=6251 
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