From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 17:20:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE0616A474 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dd@emeraldcityeg.com) Received: from mail.justlinuxhosting.com (mail.justlinuxhosting.com [198.107.153.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D5313C465 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dd@emeraldcityeg.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.justlinuxhosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1815214242E for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at justlinuxhosting.com Received: from mail.justlinuxhosting.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (curtain.justlinuxhosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PFD5vDoCvNS5 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.178] (204.11.227.123.static.etheric.net [204.11.227.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dd@emeraldcityeg.com) by mail.justlinuxhosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD644142420 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: ECEG / Daniel Duerr Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:34 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: Subject: nfs mounting will hang a machine on bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:20:08 -0000 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