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- From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
- Subject: Re: Host unusable when an NFS mounted disk is unavailable
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.173624.5073@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <1992Jul30.163048.26854@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:36:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.163048.26854@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjw@loboa.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Wolff) writes:
- >We have an HP750 running 8.07.
- >
- >When a machine (whose disks are NFS mounted) goes down,
- >I can't do anything on the host machine until the machine
- >with the NFS mounted disk comes back up.
- >
- >If I try to execute any command, such as pwd, I get a message like
- >"NFS server coral not responding, still trying"
- >and absolutely NOTHING happens. The prompt goes away and I
- >am unable to cancel the command. Why does this happen and how
- >can I prevent it ?
-
- You can try the 'bg' and 'intr' options in /etc/checklist:
-
- #
- # Mount / and /u1 from argentum.
- #
- argentum:/ /nfs/argentum/root nfs rw,suid,bg,hard,intr 0 0
- argentum:/u1 /nfs/argentum/u1 nfs rw,suid,bg,hard,intr 0 0
-
- though many HP-UX commands require that every mountable file
- system be mounted, or they'll hang forever (e.g. 'update').
- I have not had much success getting out of 'df'/'bdf' commands
- either when a NFS server is down.
- --
- What are the chances that any computer system will ever "work" properly?
- ... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
-