If you can reproduce this, you might try adding the "bg" option to the mount options (via options => in puppet). I suspect that when puppet tries to do the nfs mount with the nfs server unavailable, it will hang for 120 seconds or more. I think it you tried the same mount command at that time outside of puppet, it would hang.
I suspect you have ensure => mounted, if ensure => present and atboot => true would be adequate, you might circumvent this problem. Having puppet ensure the mount is cool, but the 30 minute lag isn't adequate in our shop to detect and correct a missing resource. I would have our monitoring system (Zabbix) more frequently check resources, maybe every minute or two and not rely on puppet alone. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:02 AM, madAndroid <andrewsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > That sounds a little heavy handed ... > > also, I feel that it would probably stop the mount from happening at > all? > how would the fstab initiate the nfs mount if it's not able to resolve > the address of the nfs server correctly? > unless I'm missing something .. > > > On Nov 9, 7:12 pm, Guy Matz <gm...@matz.org> wrote: > > OK. This may seem like a bad idea, but it's a workaround that has worked > > for me: > > I add the nfs server to the 127.0.0.1 entry of the hosts file which > causes > > NFS to time out pretty immediately. :-\ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, madAndroid <andrewsta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We've only recently discovered that puppet can manage mount points > > > using the mount directive; > > > however, a short while back we built an nfs client and server classes > > > without using this resource, and we've encountered a problem where > > > puppet seems to hang when the nfs server is unavailable. > > > > > Using --debug doesn't seem to specify exactly at which point the run > > > is failing, which could steer us in the right direction around putting > > > something in place in the classes in question. > > > > > Is there anything we can do, short of switching over to using the > > > mount directive/resource, in order to mitigate the problem when the > > > nfs server is unavailable? It's preventing us from managing other > > > resources on the clients when this happens.. > > > > > thanks in advance, > > > Andrew > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Puppet Users" group.> To post to this group, send email > topuppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to> > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
