topic pwd hangs on NFS mounts in Operating System - HP-UX

pwd hangs on NFS mounts

Patrick Hawley — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:14:11 GMT

Hello. Our 9000 D series had a hard drive completely die last week, and I'm in the process of bringing it back up.

One problem I'm experiencing is that if I do a pwd command in my home directory (NFS mounted), it hangs and I have to kill the PID from another session.

pwd works on local mounts just fine. Also, ls and cd works fine within the NFS mounts.

I'm thinking this might be a larger NFS problem on the HP side, but have been unable to find any reference to this issue in the knowledge base or the forums.

Thanks for your help, and thanks for your posts in the forum archives, which have been of considerable assistance.

Re: pwd hangs on NFS mounts

Thierry Poels_1 — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:27:41 GMT

sjips, sounds bad.
I know of issues where the nfs-server is rebooted, the local server will also need to be rebooted to get rid of the nfs-mount.
There is also another issue where 'ls' AND 'pwd' fail because the access right for the mount point were set incorrectly.
So maybe you could unmount the filesystem, (temporarily) chmod 777 /mountpoint, and re-mount it again.
Also check you patch level.
good luck,
Thierry.

Re: pwd hangs on NFS mounts

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:48:21 GMT

Patrick, just a bit of clarification to narrow the focus. Is the automounter involved? Or are these hard NFS mounts?

Re: pwd hangs on NFS mounts

Patrick Hawley — Wed, 02 May 2001 17:05:12 GMT

Yes, it was an automounted mount, and unmounting and chmod-ing the mountpoint did the job.

Thanks to both of you!