From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 16:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C7B137B41E for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 13 Dec 2001 00:30:25 +0000 (GMT) To: dwalton@acm.org Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mount failure at boot In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:25:33 PST." <20011212152533.64fd3266.dwalton@acm.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:30:25 +0000 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200112130030.aa70182@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> 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 In message <20011212152533.64fd3266.dwalton@acm.org>, Dave Walton writes: >This is one thing I've been wondering about... Does NFS do some kind of >lookup, even if the mounts are specified by IP address? One of the >changes made in the last 6 months was moving DNS to this machine, but I >wouldn't expect that to matter since the mounts use IP addresses. Could you post the exact timeout messages that get printed on the console? They should indicate what timed out. You can also press Control-T on the console while the the machine is waiting to mount the NFS filesystems; the text that appears inside the "[ ]" has some information too. Usually "[kqread]" tends to mean that it is waiting for DNS, and "[select]" or "[poll]" would suggest it is waiting for the NFS server to respond. There are known problems with the use of NIS and NFS; the rc scripts try to perform NFS mounts before starting NIS (I think). Are you using NIS? Finally, if the NFS filesystems aren't critical at boot time, you can add ",-b" to the /etc/fstab options field. This will allow the boot to proceed, and the filesystems will get mounted later. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message