Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:41:31 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nfs mounting will hang a machine on bootup Message-ID: <471F75BB.9020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com>
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ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Had a very strange issue this week with my Freebsd 6.2 server on a p7
> kernel compiled on Aug 5. Did a customary reboot on a machine which has
> an NFS mount in its fstab. The machine didn't come back up, could not
> be reached by SSH, but could be pinged. I drove 1.5 hours to the data
> center where the machine resides and discovered that it was hanging
> trying to mount the NFS share on the other machine -- looping through a
> permission denied scenario and never continuing on with the bootup for
> the entire 1.5 hours.
>
> I have two suggestions here, whether one, the other, or both make sense:
>
> 1) Move the sshd startup before the NFS mounting so that I can SSH into
> the machine to fix this issue.
> 2) If an NFS mount fails after X tries, just continue booting up and
> allow the situation to be remedied later.
>
> I apologize in advance if I am missing some obvious parameter. For what
> its worth, I followed the NFS setup described in the freebsd handbook on
> freebsd.org
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
Hello Daniel,
Did you try background mounting the nfs share? If it fails for x times
(dunno how many times), then the mounting goes in the background and
the system continues to boot, periodically trying to mount the nfs share.
Cheers
remko
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