NFS/ Network

[Bona_1]

Hi all,
When I'm booting my server, my LAN interface fails to load, and the server just hangs on "starting NFS client subsystem". I have left it for about 10 minutes, and it just stays at that point. does anyone know how I can get around this, or how I can disable this NFS client message?

Thanks

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Reboot in single user mode and fix the loading of the landriver. You could also turn off the starting of your NFS client, but then the starting of things like sendmail could lock your system when booting.

[Pete Randall]

You can interrupt the NFS start by pressing Break or and fix the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file from there. Then reboot.


Pete

[Brian Hackley]

Hi,

Sometimes this can happen if one or more of the NFS Servers is down or not reachable.
Once you interrupt the boot process or reboot in single user mode, you can prevent this in the future by using the "bg" mount option on the NFS mounts in /etc/fstab.
man mount_nfs for more details.
This is a recommended option to use in most if not all NFS mounts in /etc/fstab.

Hope that helps,
-> Brian

[James Randall]

We have seen this problem also.

Here if when rebooting it hangs [At either NIS or NFS]...The Support People will T.C. the box...and on the second boot...it will start correctly.

We have had calls opened with HPRC to no avail. [We replaced the NIC card in the one system...and have yet to have the problem again.]

I've only heard of one other system here having that issue...and I'm not sure what that Engineer did to resolve the issue.

[James Randall]

Do you know if your NIC card actually configures. The problem I was referencing above....We couldn't PING the system either.

And when we did - out of the boot process...we found that the NIC card was unplumbed.

[But then it works on the second reboot.]

[Bill Hassell]

This is a VERY common problem with new installations of 11.0 and 11.11 and it can only be fixed by turning off the NFS startup options in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. Change all lines with =1 to =0 and then reboot. To interrupt a system that is hung, use SHIFT-DEL which should cancel the startup process and get you a login prompt. If you won't ever use NFS, leave the start file as is.