NFS Server not responding messages - But i cant reboot

[brian_31]

I am getting this message as the NFS server has been turned off. I need to take a ignite backup and my make_recovery fails as the NFS server not responding message keeps coming even if i run the make_recovery with a nohup and &. I cannot reboot the server until i take an ignite image. I have tried putting the command in cron but no luck. Please advise.

Thanks

Brian

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Brian,

con is the same system and problem with less environment. The command has no more chance of working there then on the regular command line.

/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop

/sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

Must be done as root.

If this doesn't fix it you have to reboot.

SEP

[Tim Nelson]

Brian,

My experience says you are most likely stuck.
My understanding is ll.31 now has a force unmount of NFS filesystems but anything earlier not.

The other option. Bring up the old NFS server. unmount and comment out the entry in fstab. Then you should be good to go.

You could also try the make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery with the following option.
-x exclude=file|directory

It MIGHT then ignore the NFS mount and allow ignite to create the image.

[Dave Olker]

What OS version is this system running? Forcible unmount is available on 11.23 also. Even with older systems there may be ways to get around the problem. I wrote a technical paper describing different methods to unmount filesystems when the server is unavailable. The paper is here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/3929/ForciblyUnmountingNFSFilesystems.pdf

Good luck,

Dave

[Prasanth V Aravind]

I belive thta you have to stop /sbin/init.d/nfs.server and start the backup.

it should work

[boomer_2]

Hi Brian,
Just try to stop those messages by using CTRL ] key or CTRL \ on ur keyboard...the messages should stop.then stop the nfs server and client ...and then u can do whatever u want.........