Are you completely booting the head node before you boot the client nodes? If you don't the client nodes boot much faster than the head (because they run so few services) and they will generaly finish booting before the nfs server is up, so the mounts fail.
On 4/12/07, Greenseid, Joseph M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am installing OSCAR 4.2.1 on an IA64 cluster. When the nodes reboot (after > installation, and also every time after that), they fail to mount any NFS > file systems. However, once the node has finished booting, if I do a "mount > /home" it mounts instantly. > > My exports file on my head node says: > > ~]$ cat /etc/exports > # > /home 10.2.148.1/255.255.255.0(async,rw,no_root_squash) > /share 10.2.148.1/255.255.255.0(async,rw) > ~]$ > > My fstab entry on a compute node looks like this: > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sda4 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 1 2 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > nfs_oscar:/share /share nfs rw 0 0 > nfs_oscar:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > > I tried changing nfs_oscar to the head node's eth0 IP addr, and the file > looks like this: > > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sda4 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 1 2 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > 10.2.148.1:/share /share nfs rw 0 0 > 10.2.148.1:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > However, NFS mounting during boot fails in both cases. > > I get variations of the error message in my /var/log/messages log from the > failures during boot: > > Apr 12 13:23:58 compute-15-01 mount: mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs_oscar' > failed: > Apr 12 13:23:58 compute-15-01 mount: System Error: No route to host. > > or > > Apr 12 13:24:07 compute-15-01 mount: mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs_oscar' > failed: System Error: Connection refused > > or > > Apr 12 13:32:25 compute-15-01 mount: mount: mount to NFS server '10.2.148.1' > failed: > Apr 12 13:32:25 compute-15-01 mount: System Error: No route to host. > > As I said, in both instances (both IP address and nfs_oscar hostname in the > fstab), once booting was complete, the command "mount /home" worked perfectly > fine. > > Any idea why it isn't working during boot? > > Thanks, > --Joe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
