ls -l hangs in /net

[Carme Torca]

Hi,

I have a problem, when I do ls -l, its hangs.
The same when I do fuser /net or cd /net.

I have nfs filesystems mounts in it.
What can I do?
Thanks!,
Carmen.

[Frank de Vries]

What happened ? Was the connection lost ?

Then you best reconnect properly.

umount /net

And you may try to stop and start
the nfs deamons.

Depending on whether this is the client
or server or both you can
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start

mount /net

[Paul Sperry]

I agree with frank.
What does bdf show? Does it hang too?

[Bill Hassell]

It is very common to have commands hang for network filesystems when the networking is overloaded, badly configured or your NFS server is not working. All filesystems in HP-UX must work correctly or many commands will hang or fail.

[Mark Ellzey]

Hi,

You must also check for proper name resolution. If this host cannot resolve the NFS server's hostname, you will also see this problem.

Regards,
Mark

[siva0123]

Hi ,


Try to unmount the file system which is having issue and restart the nfs dameons.

also please ensure that the nfs server which is sharing that filesystem is alive.

Thanks,
Siva

[Jeff Wilkins]

You most likely have a mounted nfs that is not available. More than likely you will not be able to umount. Follow Franks stop commands. If this does not work comment out the likely not available nfs mount and restart.

I have had this happen before. I came in and noticed all my file system backups fail because of a lost nfs mount was causing network timeout error in netbackup. One reason I don't like mounting nfs on a server.

[Frank de Vries]

Please do not forget to assign points:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Thanks

[Ganesh Balraman]

Run the following Command and it should respond Ready and wait.
Step1:
#rpcinfo -u nfsd
#rpcinof -u rpc.statd
#rpcinfo -u nfsd
#rpcinfo -u rpc.statd

or

Step2:Restart nfs server daemons.

or

Finally reboot the nfs server.

Regds
B.Ganesh

[MHudec]

Hello Carmen,


advices for nfs server side were already given, I just would add one for the client side.

It might prove better to use autofs to mount nfs stuff instead of having entries directly in /etc/fstab. It might cause some headache during boot when nfs server is not available as system will wait until nfs server becomes available.

Steps:

1. Setup /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf:
AUTOFS=1
AUTO_MASTER="/etc/auto_master" AUTOMOUNT_OPTIONS=""
AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS=""

2. Check also for following in nfsconf:
NFS_CLIENT=1
NFS_SERVER=1
NUM_NFSD=4
NUM_NFSIOD=4

3. Setup /etc/auto_master:
/- /etc/auto.direct

4. Setup /etc/auto.direct:
:

5. Restart automounter:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start