On Thursday, 16 November 2023 20:38:45 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:29:19 CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > My little server needs help with compiling, so I NFS-export /var (which > > has > > its own partition) to a chroot on my workstation. I mount all the > > partitions on both server and workstation. Then when I chroot, env-update > > hangs for ever. Well, over an hour anyway. > > > > Is it possible to export /var in this way? I can't see anything else > > wrong. > > I don't see why it shouldn't work, but there's a couple commands I use to > debug NFS. They're not *great*, but they work. > > I haven't used Gentoo in a while so I forget exactly what env-update does, > but I assume mounting the network share works successfully and this is just > a command that accesses /var. > > You can use these commands to make the kernel driver output debugging > information to dmesg. > > On the client: > > # rpcdebug -m nfs -s all > > On the server: > > # rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all > > On both sides, if the others don't give useful info, this is for the lower > > level protocol: > > # rpcdebug -m rpc -s all > > Then, try running the command again. It will spew a lot of info but > hopefully you can figure out from it what's going on.
I'll try that - thanks. -- Regards, Peter.
