booting up hung on start nfs core subsystem

[Jeff Hagstrom]

When I booted my RP7410 HPUX 11.11 up, it has hung on "Start NFC Core subsystem", waiting....
messages before:
Conf vlan interface ok
Conf lan interface fail
Starting HP-UX secure shell fail
Starting NFS core subsystem waiting......

Can I get past this some how? why would it be hanging?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

It is most likely hanging because of "Conf lan interface fail". It's hard to start NFS with no lan.

You can interrupt the start up using the keys on your console keyboard. Or you can start over, interrupt the boot process and boot into single user mode. In either case, you need to fix whatever is wrong with your lan interface. Take a look at /etc/rc.log for hints as to what it's objecting to.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeff:

I believe that I answered this yesterday in another post of yours, That said, try:

CTRL |

...that is , the control and the pipe ('|').

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Either you have misconfigured the lan or interface failure. Unless you fix that issue NFS won't start.

Either you can skip NFS subsystem start or boot into single user mode and disable NFS subsystem in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. Then boot the server and troubleshoot on lan failure.

[Michael Steele_2]

Well, James has told you how to get past this on boot up with cntrl |. To trouble shoot the device first verify the mac address with linkloop and arp. Once the mac is verified ping the card to see if its active. Then ping the router. Then ping another server.

Linkloop will verify the 2nd layer
Ping will verify the 3rd layer.

If linkloop fails then check the 1st layer or physical connection.

# lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
1/0/9/1/0/6/0 0x001560DEE990 11 UP lan11 snap11 1 ETHER Yes
119

# linkloop -v 0x001560DEE990
Link connectivity to LAN station: 0x001560DEE990
-- OK

# ifconfig lan11
lan11: flags=1843
# ping 157.235.1.89

# netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Interface Pmtu

default 157.235.1.246 UG 0 lan11 0

# ping 157.235.1.246

[Bill Hassell]

Unless *all* networking is perfect, don't start NFS-anything. Even if there are no exports or imports, NFS can hang the bootup process forever. Go to /etc/rc.config.d and turn off all NFS services in the nfsconf file. Then troubleshoot all your LAN issues (rebooting will be hang-free). Look in /etc/rc.log of the details and make sure NFS servers used by this local system are working correctly. Then try NFS by restoring the original nfsconf file.

One important note about /etc/rc.config.d:

DO NOT STORE OLD FILES in /etc/rc.config.d. Every file in /etc/rc.config.d will be executed which causes bizarre results when old copies are hanging around. Instead, create an old directory (mkdir /etc/rc.config.d/old) and copy original files, ideally with a timestamp), into the old directory. Then edit the file:

cd /etc/rc.config.d
mkdir old
cp netconf old/netconf.20081012
vi netconf