Thanks to:
Ford Chris
sry2k_at_yahoo.com (steve)
Werner Rost
for their help. In the end, I wound up rebooting the server which
solved the problem. It is possible that I could have solved this
by stpping and starting the right startup scripts, but I didn't
want to start playing around with the running system.
Regards,
Peter Stern
Original question:
> When I try to mount a filesystem on one of my workstations I get:
> # mount /Tex
> Bad MNT RPC: /Tex_at_server: RPC: Timed out
>
> and the mount command goes into a sleep state.
> rpcinfo -u server status
> gives:
> program 100024 version 1 ready and waiting
>
> This is what happened. Last night they changed the nameservers
> (cancelled an old one). In preparation, I changed /etc/resolv.conf
> on all our machines. This morning trying to open and XDMCP session
> on our X-terminals was very slow. I changed the address of our old
> nameserver in /etc/hosts and in the NIS hosts file. I tried to re-mount
> the nfs mounted disks. On one machine I umounted all the nfs disks and
> when I tried to mount them again I got the RPC: Timed out message.
>
> Nothing I have tried helped (HUPping inet, restarting named, start/stop
> nis, nfs, nfsetup). I am really stumped here. Rebooting is not a good
> option.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Peter
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 07:36:48 NZST