On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:34:05PM -0800, Alex Swavely wrote: > Have a problem with NFS. I have a nice running machine for a while here, > and today it starts getting boggy, so I figure I'll reboot, have it clear > out swap, dump the process tables, etc... > > Well, I can't get it to boot up now. > It gets as far as running exportfs (init.d script nfs-kernel-server) and > hangs. When I go to reboot, it hangs up at the same place (where it's > unexporting), and I'm forced to give it the BRS treatment. > > I've tried commenting out entries in my /etc/exportfs (using my rescue disk, > of course) down to nothing, and it still hangs. > > This box is fairly important, being our main server (NFS, DNS, NIS, > etc...)... > > Any suggestions?
sounds like you have something stale under /var/lib/nfs. check the etab and rmtab files. if you have a hostname in etab which cannot be resolved anymore exportfs seems to hang indefinitly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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