Do you have the workstations in the hosts file? because it sounds like a
name resolving issue I had a while ago. And when I added the workstations
to the hosts file, It was fixed.

Matthew Winther

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Ken Cobler wrote:

> Jake Schroeder wrote:
> 
> >Please help, o great NFS gurus!
> >
> >The client is just sitting there and mounting, mounting, mounting.  It
> >seems that it tries about once every ten seconds.  Why would this fail?
> >
> >
> >Sadly this has gone beyond my experience in troubleshooting NFS.  I
> >would investigate how to turn up debugging on the server to get more
> >descriptive errors about what is failing.  
> >
> >I wish you lots of luck though!  Let us all know how it goes.
> >- Jake
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:31:07PM +0200, Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Howdy
> >>
> >>When I say sleep, I mean it does nothing more/freezes/dies.
> >>
> >>/var/log/messages says:
> >>
> >>Feb 25 19:16:26 krakatoa rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 
> >>192.168.0.150:688 for /opt/ltsp/i386 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
> >>Feb 25 19:17:06 krakatoa last message repeated 4 times
> >>Feb 25 19:18:16 krakatoa last message repeated 7 times 
> >>Feb 25 19:19:17 krakatoa last message repeated 6 times
> >>Feb 25 19:20:27 krakatoa last message repeated 7 times 
> >>    
> >>
> I had a similar problem and never received an answer.  I did determine 
> this much.
> 
> My server (Redhat 8.0) has 2 ethernet cards with 10 LTSP workstations. 
>  eth0 (10.0.0.X) was the LAN,  eth1 (192.168.1.X) was the Internet 
> connection through DSL.  Default routing (gateway) went through eth1.
> 
> If I turned off default routing, then the LTSP workstation NFS mounted 
> quickly as expected.  However, without a default route, we could not 
> access the internet.
> 
> If I turned on default routing, we could access the Internet.  However, 
> the NFS would start the described (see above) sleep like state during 
> LTSP boot.  The server would go from 95% idle to 20% idle.  After about 
> 90 seconds, the LTSP workstation NFS mounted and the LTSP workstation 
> booted the rest of the way as expected.
> 
> It looked like to me, that the NFS replies were being sent down the 
> wrong ethernet connection (eth1).  After the server kernel timed out, it 
> would switch to eth0 and LTSP workstation would get its reply and 
> complete NFS mounting.
> 
> For now, we don't turn off the LTSP workstations unless we absolutely 
> necessary.  When we do, we just expect the 90 second delay before LTSP 
> booting.
> 
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Ken Cobler
> 
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
> 
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