On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:15:27AM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> That, however, is NOT the hairy one, which is that C takes a long time (XXX)
> to mount the filesystem. The mount attempt just hangs and can't be
> interrupted with ^C. Stracing it shows that it proceeds like the mount from
> B but only gets to
>> mount("bagend:/export", "/mnt", "nfs", 0xc0ed0000, 0x805a560) = -1 \
> ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
> mount("bagend:/export", "/mnt", "nfs", 0xc0ed0000, 0x805a560
>> when it waits. I was quite convinced that it had hung but eventually during
> one attempt I had to do something else so I left it for some time and when I
> came back it had finished. Again there were two log messages as above on A
> but instead of being at the same time, they were nearly 10 minutes apart.
>> Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what might be going on there ?
Are the both running portmap ? That's the only think that strikes me
straight off...or maybe DNS. Some stupid commands in 7.1 and 7.2 do DNS
lookups before doing anything. Ping, for instance. Real pisser if you are
trying to work out if you network is dead, or just the name server...
> Networking between the boxes seems fine BTW - 124 µsec average ping time
> with a flood ping with 0% loss.
>> I just rebooted the box (q.v.) and did the NFS mount again, this time
> with time - it took 5 minutes, and there were no log messages on box A
> - it gets weirder.
>> But the weirdness doesn't stop there, oh no. When I was having
> problems with NFS I really needed to transfer files from A to C so I
> decided to use scp instead - bad idea ! I cannot ssh to this machine
> at all. When I do, whether from A or from C itself, the machine hangs
> up tight and the CapsLock and ScrollLock lights on the keyboard start
> to flash. Figure that one out !
Crap hardware ?
> I also have a RH7.1 installation on this box with 2.4.6 and it behaves
> normally - NFS mounts are instantaneous and ssh works fine, so there
> shouldn't be a fundamental hardware oddity.
Ok. I think it could just be the software install is haunted.
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