I have just come across an interesting problem with a number of my Tru64
boxes. On boot when the system gets to the point of starting the NFS
services, it will hang trying to start mountd. Trying to manually start
NFS with
/sbin/init.d/nfs start
will also produce the same behaviour. The symptoms of this started with
an DU3.2c machine (yes I know it isn't Y2K compliant....long story). I
was content to consider this a Y2K problem and upgrade the machine at
some point (it is not a production machine), but now the problem has
appeared on two of my production boxes.
The first is a member of an ASE cluster running 4.0F PK1 (PK2 is going
on within the next week) and ASE 1.6.
The second is a standalone machine running 4.0D PK2 (IIRC).
All three machines exhibit the same behaviour (/usr/sbin/mountd -i
hangs). The other cluster member is running fine, but I am worried that
if it requires a restart that mountd will also fail on it (the other
cluster member is luckily only running disk services). Needless to say
this will cause major problems.
Similarly I have another standalone ES40 with 4.0F PK1 that I am also
reluctant to play with as it is somewhat more critical.
I have found someone in the list archives from October 1997 who had the
same problem, but I could not find any summary followups.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Jeffrey Bird Email: Jeffrey.Bird_at_jcu.edu.au
Computer Systems Officer, Computer Centre
James Cook University
Received on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 22:46:27 NZDT