From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 08:05:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D0C16A420 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:05:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95F813C447 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9CFYltQ019504; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:34:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071012103232.023cb5b0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:34:39 -0500 To: Michael Smith , questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <2BBC6552-76B0-4D22-9F68-BEC9E46C0FFB@adhost.com> References: <2BBC6552-76B0-4D22-9F68-BEC9E46C0FFB@adhost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Questions about HUP'ing nfsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:05:32 -0000 At 10:25 AM 10/12/2007, Michael Smith wrote: >Hello All: > >We have a NAS that's running 6.2 with nfds, mountd, rpc_statd, >rpcbind and rpc_lockd. Last night we had a scenario where nfs >clients, once disconnected, couldn't reconnect to the NAS, reporting >RPC timeouts. > >We attempted to restart all of the services above in various orders, >but we were not able to get the clients reconnected. We ultimately >rebooted the NAS server and all was well. > >My question is, in troubleshooting this sort of thing, is there a >proper sequence for stopping and restarting the various services >associated with nfs? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. > >Regards, > >Mike I wouldn't know the right order, and even if you did stop and start everything in the right order, it may not fix the problem. Your problem could be in the network stack, or someplace else. That is why I usually: "If in doubt, reboot it out" Your users already couldn't connect correctly, so no real harm in a reboot. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.