Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:55:50 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mount failure at boot Message-ID: <20011212115550.D487@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210205421.01ea3704.dwalton@acm.org>; from dwalton@acm.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:54:21PM -0800 References: <20011210205421.01ea3704.dwalton@acm.org>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:54:21PM -0800, Dave Walton wrote: > I've got a BSD box that has a bunch of NFS mounts in /etc/fstab. > Everything was happy and started up fine. But I just had to reboot it and > discovered that the nfs mounts are failing during boot. When it gets to > that point in the boot process, the system just sits there trying to mount > and timing out, repeatedly. If I set those mounts to noauto the system > boots fine, and I can mount them manually without a problem. > > So obviously something has changed on the network in the 6 months or so > since last boot that is preventing automatic nfs mounts. But once the > system is up there is no problem. What could have this effect on NFS? Are there host names in /etc/fstab? Do you need DNS functioning to resolve these host names? Is DNS fully functional when NFS is started? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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