Problems during boot with nfs client

[Heber Garcia]

Hi ,
When I'm booting an HP L1000 server with HP-UX 11.00 the boot stop in the nfs client.
The error message is NFS SERVER (pid575@/net) still trying.
And the machine doesn't boot.
What hapens.
How can I skip the nfs client start up ?

Thanks.

[Edward Sedgemore]

You have some sort of config problem with your network/dns settings which causes the /net error.

To disable nfs client startup hit the RESET/BREAK button during the bootup, this will drop you to the console login, log in as root and edit;

/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

and change the line; NFS_CLIENT from 1 to 0.
To be safe I would also set NFS_SERVER to 0.

Now reboot. This will stop the /net error on bootup for now but investigate the real cause of the problem - your network/dns settings.

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

Most likely there is an inconsistency between /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. Check that the ip address and the hostname is correct in both files.

If you cannot interrupt the boot process with the break key or Ctrl-\, reboot to run level 1 and fix the problem.

--Bruce

[Brian Hackley]

Heber,

The NFS error at boot time might be due to some problem causing the automounter to abort,
or some other possible issues.

Either disable NFS CLIENT as suggested earlier, or just disable automount by editing /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf AUTOMOUNT=0
If you require the usage of the automounter, disable it at boot time, and them try to debug it further after the system has booted up e.g. examine /var/adm/automount.log and/or /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for some possible clues.

In any case, I would go thru /etc/rc.log and /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log VERY CAREFULLY to ensure that nothing else is broken and/or mis-configured.

Hope this helps,

-> Brian Hackley