topic Re: NFS Client subsystem in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS Client subsystem

FrAnK — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:26:02 GMT

Hello,

I loaded HP-UX 11i on D-370/2 sever. when I reboot the server it goes through the all tests and hangs at "NFS Client Subsystem" and says "NFS server (pid592@/net) not responding still trying".
I m using PC HyperTerminal. I even booted up the server in single user mode to edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, but "vi" doesn't work.

Any other option ? what shoud I do guys ?

Thanks

Frank

Re: NFS Client subsystem

Chapaya — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:38:32 GMT

Hello Frank ,

First in single user mode , you dont have all the file systems , you need to mount /usr ,/tmp , mount -a .
if needed you need to use fsck /usr ....

i prefer to use maintenance mode , because you have more commands .

Second , check the NFS server , and if the daemons are ok :
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server
and the conf file .

Eran .

Re: NFS Client subsystem

Bill Hassell — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:52:44 GMT

This is a classic problem when networking, specifically DNS, is not setup correctly. You'll need to get into single user mode and as mentioned, nothing is mounted except / and /stand. Simply mount /usr /var and /tmp, then run vi on the nfsconf file. Turn off *all* NFS options including server, client and automounter. Then run the command:

reboot -q

and the system should start OK. Once up and running, fix the DNS problems and enable NFS one seervice at a time until it is functional. NFS can be particularly annoying as HP-UX depends on disks behaving normally and NFS disks can be unstable due to network problems.