Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:41:31 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nfs mounting will hang a machine on bootup Message-ID: <471F75BB.9020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com>
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ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > Hi, > > Had a very strange issue this week with my Freebsd 6.2 server on a p7 > kernel compiled on Aug 5. Did a customary reboot on a machine which has > an NFS mount in its fstab. The machine didn't come back up, could not > be reached by SSH, but could be pinged. I drove 1.5 hours to the data > center where the machine resides and discovered that it was hanging > trying to mount the NFS share on the other machine -- looping through a > permission denied scenario and never continuing on with the bootup for > the entire 1.5 hours. > > I have two suggestions here, whether one, the other, or both make sense: > > 1) Move the sshd startup before the NFS mounting so that I can SSH into > the machine to fix this issue. > 2) If an NFS mount fails after X tries, just continue booting up and > allow the situation to be remedied later. > > I apologize in advance if I am missing some obvious parameter. For what > its worth, I followed the NFS setup described in the freebsd handbook on > freebsd.org > > Cheers, > Daniel Hello Daniel, Did you try background mounting the nfs share? If it fails for x times (dunno how many times), then the mounting goes in the background and the system continues to boot, periodically trying to mount the nfs share. Cheers remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */
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