automount and nfs problem.

[Richard Barcellano_1]

We are having problem with one of our HP UX server (HP UX 11) whenever we do a directory listing in / and the error we are getting is 'NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying'
Here is a part of the entires in mnttab.
/dev/vgdb/db /d/db vxfs delaylog,nodatainlog 0 0 1051089080
abc:(pid645) /net ignore defaults 0 0 1051089172

I see also that automount process is not running and I don't know how to restart it.

Could someone please help me solve the problem.

Thanks in advance.

[Pete Randall]

Richard,

To restart automounter:

/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start



Pete

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try this link from the hp docs site for a bunch of info on automounter.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90051/B1031-90051_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90051/00/00/11-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90051/00/00/11-toc.html&searchterms=automounter&queryid=20031022-094332

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Richard Barcellano_1]

Thanks the process started but we got another problem.

phirep1:/sbin/init.d# ./nfs.client start
starting NFS CLIENT networking

killing nfsd
killing rpc.mountd
starting up the rpcbind
rpcbind already started, using pid: 543
starting up the BIO daemons
biod(s) already started, using pid(s): 618 619 617 620
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
rpc.statd already started, using pid: 628
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
rpc.lockd already started, using pid: 634
starting up the Automount daemon
/usr/sbin/automount -f /etc/auto_master
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying
NFS server (pid645@/net) not responding still trying

Could someone please help us. Thanks.

[Patrick Wallek]

Have a look in /etc/auto.master and remove the entry for /net. Then stop and restart automounter.

If you are not using automount you can comment out the appropriate lines in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf.

[V. Nyga]

Hi Richard,

I've seen that NFS fails if lan card speed is different to net speed.
You should also check your settings of your lan card.

Regards
Volkmar

[James A. Donovan]

Make sure your ONC/NFS patches are up to date. I've had several problems related to the automounter in the last two years. I've had to get patches directly from HP development because I couldn't wait 6 months for the patch to be released. I've noticed that the latest patches address all the issues I've had and more...