Hi Zoltan, Yes, it could be a stale NFS mount point. Take a look at the NFSTIMEOUT client option which lets you set a non-indefinite value for waiting on NFS mount points.
Regards, Andy ____________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Raibeck | IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 | [email protected] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links: Product support: https://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/product/tivoli/tivoli_storage_manager Online documentation: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html Product Wiki: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 2016-10-06 10:59:55: > From: Zoltan Forray <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 2016-10-06 11:01 > Subject: dsmc won't start/hangs > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > An odd situation popped up on a Linux client (7.1.3.1). > > This client had been backing up just fine and suddenly it stopped. Nothing > in dsmerror.log. > > What is strange is you cant get into dsmc. It simply hangs so hard you > have to kill -9 it. > > The TSM server is still fully ping-able. Tried renaming dsm.sys/dsm.opt so > it could not find it and properly reports this but as soon as they are > available/found, it hang? > > The only clue/oddity we see is an NFS mount that is also > non-responsive/non-pingable and we are talking to the server owner about > rebooting the box. Can this be causing the dsmc process to hang? > > Any thoughts on how to diagnose this? > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Xymon Monitor Administrator > VMware Administrator (in training) > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > www.ucc.vcu.edu > [email protected] - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html >
