topic BDF command hung in Operating System - HP-UX

BDF command hung

jeena_2 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:53:34 GMT

Hi,

When i try to execute bdf command it will hung but bdf -l command is working,could you please help on this...

Thanks in Adv.

Re: BDF command hung

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:58:56 GMT

Hi:

This would suggest a stale NFS mount.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: BDF command hung

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:59:48 GMT

Running 'bdf' without any arguments will scan ALL mountpoints, including NFS mounts. A 'bdf -l' will look at LOCAL, non-NFS, mounts only.

My guess would be that you have an NFS mount that is not responding for some reason.

I would check all NFS mounts and verify they are all working.

Re: BDF command hung

jeena_2 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:29:45 GMT

Hi,

We have 5 NFS mount point int is server.but I can access all mount point through cd command and see the files and directories...

Could you please help on this...

Thanks in Adv.

Re: BDF command hung

Kevin Lister — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:34:43 GMT

Curious. You say that bdf hangs without using the "local only" switch but you are able to cd to each of the NFS mounts and list the contents? Interesting.

Any chance you can post the contents of the /etc/fstab file and the output of the 'mount' command?

Are you using the automounter?

Do you use /net mounts?

kev

Re: BDF command hung

SUDHAKAR_18 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:42:02 GMT

check for NO_HW devices
#ioscan -fn |grep -i no

is thre any error logging in syslog ?

Re: BDF command hung

sarfaraj ahmad — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:23:23 GMT

Hi jeena,

have any changes done on the system so after that this problem started?

please check the log files for any error or event log and put /etc/fstab output for better analysis.

if you any old bdf output captured then it will help to understand the problem.

Re: BDF command hung

Kapil Jha — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:05:50 GMT

run bdf
check which file system its hung...you can see it in fstab
(filesystsem listing is same as in fstab untill and unless its changed earlier).

Then see /etc/mnttab file.

First check which file system is the troubled one then concentrate on that FS.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: BDF command hung

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:15:55 GMT

Hi,

You say, when you issue;

# bdf -l

it got stuck again ? if so,

check the system logs OR root mails ,
# less /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
# less /var/mail/root

Re: BDF command hung

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:21:24 GMT

On second though, you might have a flakky disk on your nfs server , go to nfs server and check the disks and any full disk.
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