NFS Startup Problem

[Tom Jackson]

Hi again:

When my J6000, HPUX 11i workstation is starting up, it hangs for several minutes on the step:

Start NFS Client Subsystem

But then it boots up just fine. Any clues?

Tom

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Several things to check:
1) /etc/rc.log for any errors/warnings
2) /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for any type of warnings from nfs daemons
3) /etc/exports file for exported file systems
4) /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf for any errors in configuration
5) nfs patch levels

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Is it trying to establish a NFS connection to another server. Is there a NFS mount in your /etc/fstab that it cannot get to.

[S.K. Chan]

You did not really provide more info. Is it running automounter or regular NFS mounts from "fstab" table. If everything starts up fine eventually as you put it, it's not going to be easy to find out why it take several minutes for NFS client to start. Look for possible "bad or slow" fstab entries (if you're not using automounter). Umount and mount them back individually, how's the response ?

[Tom Jackson]

Hi:

Thanks for your responses!

Problem fixed. I had a remote mount that didn't exist. It showed up in rc.log as an error and a retry attempt.

Tom