SUMMARY: Odd NFS kernel notice in /var/adm/messages

I went through a backlog of email today and found a note from a Sun
technician concerning a ticket I put in about this error message, so I
thought I would post his e-mail as a summary to this problem. Below is
the original message I sent to the list in June, and below that is the
Sun tech's summary of the problem.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:21:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joy Locke <fizgig@snerk.net>
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Odd NFS kernel notice in /var/adm/messages

I have an Ultra10 running Solaris 8 with the jumbo patch set from 14
June. We're running big brother for system notifications and received
this notification in /var/adm/messages a little while ago:

Jun 24 12:05:35 enigma nfssrv: [ID 296073 kern.notice] NOTICE: acl_server: bad
proc number 3

I have looked on Google, docs.sun.com and searched the sunmanager
archives for information regarding this, and the only thing I've found
that really applies is a question on the big brother mailing list
about how to turn off the notification for this. According to the
poster, this is a known bug, but I haven't been able to find any
reference to that elsewhere. Does anyone have any idea what this is or
where I can find out about it? I will summarize responses.

Thanks.

Joy

Now for the note from the Sun tech:

<snip>

Technically, this error: NOTICE: acl_server: bad proc number 3
doesn't mean much...All it means is that the system is sending
ACL3_GETXATTRDIR procedure invocation requests to other NFS servers.

Some of the servers don't know how to react to this.  That is when
you get the error.

Hope this helps...

</snip>

This is indeed a known bug, according to the Sun tech, and can be
treated as such. I don't know of a workaround at this time. Since Sun
pulled down their list of known bugs from Sunsolve, it was hard to
confirm that this was a bug until I called Sun support.

HTH,
Joy
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