[OpenAFS] rx failed to send packet

Marc Dionne marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Tue, 27 May 2014 14:34:22 -0400


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Joyce <stephen@physics.unc.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a server which runs several scripts with AFS tokens. These scripts
> often manipulate PTS users and groups and less-often perform volume
> operations.
>
> For the past ~week, I occasionally see in the output the following message.
>
>  "rx failed to send packet: rx_sendmsg: Operation not permitted"

Not sure it's related to your particular case, but FYI on some Linux
kernels there's a race within the connection tracking code that can
cause sendmsg to return EPERM when 2 threads are concurrently
establishing a connection to the same endpoint.

Marc