pwd hangs on NFS mounts

[Patrick Hawley]

Hello. Our 9000 D series had a hard drive completely die last week, and I'm in the process of bringing it back up.

One problem I'm experiencing is that if I do a pwd command in my home directory (NFS mounted), it hangs and I have to kill the PID from another session.

pwd works on local mounts just fine. Also, ls and cd works fine within the NFS mounts.

I'm thinking this might be a larger NFS problem on the HP side, but have been unable to find any reference to this issue in the knowledge base or the forums.

Thanks for your help, and thanks for your posts in the forum archives, which have been of considerable assistance.

[Thierry Poels_1 · Accepted solution]

sjips, sounds bad.
I know of issues where the nfs-server is rebooted, the local server will also need to be rebooted to get rid of the nfs-mount.
There is also another issue where 'ls' AND 'pwd' fail because the access right for the mount point were set incorrectly.
So maybe you could unmount the filesystem, (temporarily) chmod 777 /mountpoint, and re-mount it again.
Also check you patch level.
good luck,
Thierry.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Patrick, just a bit of clarification to narrow the focus. Is the automounter involved? Or are these hard NFS mounts?

[Patrick Hawley]

Yes, it was an automounted mount, and unmounting and chmod-ing the mountpoint did the job.

Thanks to both of you!