topic NFS Startup Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

NFS Startup Problem

Tom Jackson — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:06:46 GMT

Hi again:

When my J6000, HPUX 11i workstation is starting up, it hangs for several minutes on the step:

Start NFS Client Subsystem

But then it boots up just fine. Any clues?

Tom

Re: NFS Startup Problem

Helen French — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:15:14 GMT

Several things to check:
1) /etc/rc.log for any errors/warnings
2) /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for any type of warnings from nfs daemons
3) /etc/exports file for exported file systems
4) /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf for any errors in configuration
5) nfs patch levels

Re: NFS Startup Problem

Ken Hubnik_2 — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:20:04 GMT

Is it trying to establish a NFS connection to another server. Is there a NFS mount in your /etc/fstab that it cannot get to.

Re: NFS Startup Problem

S.K. Chan — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:25:27 GMT

You did not really provide more info. Is it running automounter or regular NFS mounts from "fstab" table. If everything starts up fine eventually as you put it, it's not going to be easy to find out why it take several minutes for NFS client to start. Look for possible "bad or slow" fstab entries (if you're not using automounter). Umount and mount them back individually, how's the response ?

Re: NFS Startup Problem

Tom Jackson — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:41:18 GMT

Hi:

Thanks for your responses!

Problem fixed. I had a remote mount that didn't exist. It showed up in rc.log as an error and a retry attempt.

Tom