/var/log/messages ful of rpc.statd select: Bad file descriptor lines

[Steve Searle]

On three or four occasions now on one of my Fedora 18 machines warns
that I am running out of space on /var (it has its own partition). This
is due to /var/log/messages being full of rpc.statd[1282]: my_svc_run()
- select: Bad file descriptor messages - these are repeated many times a
second.

Deleting /var/log/messages gets round this as a work around, but can
anyone suggest what I can do to investigate/fix this?

Thanks

Steve

[Rick Stevens]

On 04/05/2013 09:47 AM, Steve Searle issued this missive:
> On three or four occasions now on one of my Fedora 18 machines warns
> that I am running out of space on /var (it has its own partition). This
> is due to /var/log/messages being full of rpc.statd[1282]: my_svc_run()
> select: Bad file descriptor messages - these are repeated many times a
>
> second.
>
> Deleting /var/log/messages gets round this as a work around, but can
> anyone suggest what I can do to investigate/fix this?

Make sure your mountd daemon has been updated. Also, if that machine
isn't an NFS server, disable mountd:

systemctl stop nfs-mountd.service
    systemctl disable nfs-mountd.service

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[Steve Searle]

Around 09:11pm on Friday, April 05, 2013 (UK time), Rick Stevens scrawled:
> Make sure your mountd daemon has been updated. Also, if that machine
> isn't an NFS server, disable mountd:
>
> systemctl stop nfs-mountd.service
>    systemctl disable nfs-mountd.service

Thanks. This isn't a nfs server, only a client, so I will try this and
hope the problem goes away.

Cheers

Steve