In RHEL 6 , NFSv4 and idmapd hangs when trying to handle a change of file ownership to a group name with a whitespace.
Issue
- A chown (or chgrp) process hangs on a file that exists on a NFSv4 share, if the target username/groupname contains spaces in between.
- Server shows following error in
/var/log/messages:
rpc.idmapd[2025]: nfsdcb: bad name in upcall
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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