Server will not boot after installing cifs

[Nogues]

I installed CIFS on a HP9000 N4000 using swinstall.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s /tmp/B8724AA_A.02.01_HP-UX_B.11.23_IA+PA.depot B8724AA

During the installation it noted that two dependancies were not met but it completed an rebooted the server.

However now the server will not boot properly.

It goes through alloc_pdc_pages and the following and then just freezes:

gate64: sysvec_vaddr = 0xc0002000 for 1 pages
NOTICE: autofs_link(): File system was registered at index 3.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 5.
td: claimed Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 0/8/0/0
td: claimed Tachyon TL/TS Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 1/2/0/0

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface


Any thoughts?

[Nogues]

HP-UX Version is B.11.00

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

If your HP-UX version is 11.0, why did you install CIFS for 11.23?

That could be part of the problem. YOu should probably attempt to boot into single-user mode and remove the CIFS software.

Then go and download the correct version of CIFS for your OS and install it.

[Nogues]

Thank you for your reponse, the server would not even boot into single user mode.

My mistake seemed to have rightly corrupted the kernal.

I booted my vmunix.prev and copied it over /stand/vmunix

I will take a look and removing this version and installing the correct version aswell as ensuring all dependancies are installed.

Thank you for your help.

Am I missing something or is this the only way for me to mount an nfs resource from a windows server?

[Jeff Schussele]

How long did you wait before you assumed the system was frozen?
DNS or even network issues can cause very long boot pauses when NFS tries to initialize - especially when clients/servers are already defined.
You can get past the "hang" with ctrl-]

Also I'm at a loss as to how it would have installed "incompatible" software without the
-x allow_incompatible=true
command line switch - false is the default value.

And finally even though CIFS is a better HP-UX/Windoze solution, plain ole vanilla NFS that comes in the base OS will work as well.
And you can also use the open source NFS product Samba - which is what CIFS is based on.

HTH,
Jeff

[Nogues]

Hello Jeff,

When I issue showmount for the server I want to mount the resource from I get the following:

xxxxxxx:xxxxxx:/xxxxxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxxx> showmount -e xx.xx.xx.xx
showmount: xx.xx.xx.xx: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out

It is possible that the windows administrator has not properly shared the resource.

Do you have information regarding how the resource should be shared on the windows servers so that mount -F Nfs etc will work?

Thank you for your response.