Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:05:57 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problems with 2.2.1R Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970404090548.006b121c@etinc.com>
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At 12:40 AM 4/4/97 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> >> I've concluded that the problems that I've been having are *not* due to >> a buggy de driver but NFS. I have the same symptoms on a totally >> different machine with an ne2000 card as I had with the de PCI >> card. >> >> My server is a 2.1.6R box which has been reliably been working for >> quite some time (previously with 2.1.5 of course). When loading >> 2.2.1R via NFS, it consistantly hangs loading bin, however not >> in the same place. The system completely hangs (ie alt-F keys >> do not work, cant ctl-alt-del...). >> >> Anyone with any ideas on how to get around this? I loaded 2.2R >> without incident on the same hardware. > >When the system is hung, is there any net traffic? I just fixed a bug in >current which caused it to loop, continually re-reading the same directory >block. This is really obvious when you use tcpdump. I can make a patch >for this specific problem against 2.2 but I don't (yet) have a 2.2 machine >to test. No, there is no network traffic. I have a LAN monitor on the network and the server sends a window of frames that do not get ack'd by the hung machine. As this is occurring with the boot floppy I'm not able to do much diagnosis :( Dennis > >-- >Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com >Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > > >
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