Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:34 -0700 From: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: nfs mounting will hang a machine on bootup Message-ID: <36782071-6FEE-469A-BA6E-26DCBA9ECBB4@emeraldcityeg.com>
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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
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