pfs_mount hanging on /cdrom

[Larry Scheetz]

I did a pfs_mount on my Cdrom to install software. Was working fine. Now it is hung. Did a BDF and it hung. Keep getting error msg on screen NFS server not responding still trying? I have done the following. Tried killing bdf process, try stopping all nfs processes and nothing. Nothing will stop saying that /cdrom is busy. How can I kill those processes that wont kill for the hung bdf? Prod machine dont want to bounce. :o)

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Check this out. In the NFS environment such problems are bound to occur and I think you may have to reboot.

Check this question which was posted today

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf4238f960573d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Piyush

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Larry


All you can is to reboot the box .This is bcoz pfs_mount is not really a good one , and hangs when u use to umount instead of pfs_umount for unmounting. Incase you get to this situation I would suggest that you do a ps -aef | grep pfs and kill from the lowest process onwards.


Manoj Srivastava

[John Poff]

Larry,

The only luck I've had with this problem in the past is when I didn't have the statd and lockd daemons running. I was able to start them and eventually get out of the problem. The pfs daemons are looking for those daemons when they are timing out or have an error, I think.

Otherwise, you'll have to reboot.

JP

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Larry,

If you are having problem with bdf while working with pfs_mount, you have to reboot the system to recover from the problem.

Hope this helps.

regds