Peter,
Thanks for your input.
In fact on further investigation it looks like autofs is not the culprit
after all - I get the same problem when mounting by hand:
% mount -v -t nfs -s -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024,async
anawara:/docs/projects /mnt
mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
Regards!
Luke Diamand
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Luke Diamand wrote:
> >
> > Johannes Nix wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a running workstation wich is NFS client and also server (SMP
> > > Pentium II / 2.2.5 Kernel). Normally everything works.
> > >
> > > Sometimes, about every few days, I am not able to mount files
> > > with nfs anymore. This happens with the local filesystems, with
> > > filesystems on IRIX and Linux Hosts.
> >
> > Strangely, I've just started seeing a similar problem, perhaps related,
> > perhaps not.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, I find that after a while, when automount tries to
> > mount a directory for me, I end up with _2_ automounters running on the
> > same mount point with both of them stuck. Killing the second one gets
> > things back to life.
> >
> > ps auxl gives me:
> >
> > 40 0 848 1 1 0 944 532 do_pipe_rea S p0 0:00
> > automount /usr/site yp auto_site rw
> >
> > 140 0 916 848 1 0 1040 644 do_pipe_rea S p0 0:00
> > automount /usr/site yp auto_site rw
> >
> > Killing PID 916 makes it all better.
> >
> > The only things I've changed recently are upgrading to 2.3.10 (but
> > downgrading to 2.2.7 makes no difference) and adding
> > 'rsize=1024,wsize=1024' to localoptions (to workaround a broken bridge).
> > I'm using autofs 3.1.3.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> autofs frequently spawns worker processes as a matter of course; that's
> why you're seeing two processes. In this case, it looks like 916 is
> going bonkers... furthermore, it's doing it in a way that is paralyzing
> the main process.
>
> Please set syslog to log *everything*, and send me any autofs-related
> log entries.
>
> Are you using stock autofs?
>
> -hpa
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