From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 11:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53C037B41F for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtm6u.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.216.222] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EFU6-0004Gq-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:56:07 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBCJtp201580; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:55:50 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Dave Walton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mount failure at boot Message-ID: <20011212115550.D487@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011210205421.01ea3704.dwalton@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210205421.01ea3704.dwalton@acm.org>; from dwalton@acm.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:54:21PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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