From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 7 08:02:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA20511 for current-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.39.177.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA20506 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from totum.plaut.de (totum.plaut.de [194.39.177.9]) by plaut.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA19619; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:02:45 +0200 Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by totum.plaut.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21700; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:02:47 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:02:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michael Reifenberger To: Wm Brian McCane cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lockup In-Reply-To: <199706071426.JAA19490@bmccane.uit.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 09:26:38 -0500 > From: Wm Brian McCane > To: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Lockup > > I have found an `interesting' lockup in -current involving NFS. If I have a > filesystem mounted from my server machine onto one of my client machines, and > then unmount the filesystem on the server, the next time I type `df' the > client stops working. No panic, nothing just dead. In X the mouse stops > moving, and I cannot switch to a text console. On a text console, I cannot Could it be that you have mounted the remote FS to /? And you mounted it hard. So if a process traverses the rootdir it gets blocked. A workaround should be: mkdir /mnt/foo mount dest:/bla /mnt/foo ln -s /mnt/foo / I'm not shure if it is suffitient to mount the FS soft/intr. BTW: Does amd help in such a situation(server dies)? Has anybody tried? Bye! ---- Michael Reifenberger Plaut Software GmbH, R/3 Basis