From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 13:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13370 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-V25.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.211.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13353 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brightmn@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA06206; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:15:56 GMT Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:15:55 +0000 (GMT) From: BRiGHTMN To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: mounting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm stumped here, could I get some help? yes the man pages, a man on ps states: state The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example, ``RWNA''. The first letter indicates the run state of the pro-cess: D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-ruptible) wait. your NFS servers aren't responding correctly try using NFS version 2 instead of 3 it worked for me. Alfred Perlstein perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu > I'm trying to do an NFS mount of a directory on a 3.0 machine onto another > machine that's running 2.2.1, for the purpose of transferring /usr/src. I > can mount the 3.0 machine's /usr/src onto my (current) machine and > transfer files with no problem. When I do the mount onto the 2.2.1 > machine, the first ls works, then everything afterwards fails, and hangs. > I have tried, as a test, just to transfer the Makefile into another > directory, here's the ps from it: > > 207 p1 D 0:00.01 cp /usr/src/Makefile > > I don't understand the "D" status. All the nfsd and nfsiod's are running, > as is portmap and mountd, on both machines. Since I can successfully > mount and tranfer files from the source machine to my own, I think maybe > it's in the target machine (the 2.2.1 machine) that has the trouble, but I > can't guess what it is. Can you? > > I've tried this several times, and done some reboot cycles that seemed to > work just fine. I'm willing to do some experimentation ... > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > >