Re: Problem - After a reboot, the *first* `mount -a -t nfs' gets stuck in `D'

Jussi Silvennoinen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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> 	Running  Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 8)
> 
> 	Kernels - on one box tired 2.4.21-47.EL 2.4.21-40.EL and 2.4.21-37.0.1.EL
> 	          on another 2.4.21-40.ELsmp
> 	
> 	Hardware - IBM 1U rack mounted boxes (x-305 iirc)   
> 		Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
> 
> 	Last night something happened - A network event possibly.  Since then:
> 
> 	On attempting to reboot my machines they fail to come up all the way.
> They stop in netfs.  They do come up all the way if I `chkconfig netfs off'.
> 
> 	*BUT*   if I then log in and type 
> mount -a -t nfs &
> 	the mount process hangs - in state D.
> 
> 	However if I type
> mount -a -t nfs &
> 	*again* this time it succeeds quite normally.  Disks are mounted.  All
> is well.
> 
> 	This has been seen on two machines so far.
> 
> 	The first mount process is still in D:
> 
> # ps auxww | grep mount
> root 1880 0.0 0.0 3776 812 pts/0 D 10:48 0:00 mount -a -t nfs
> root 2532 0.0 0.0 3688 672 pts/0 S 11:18 0:00 grep mount

Do you have 'bg' in fstab for that mount?
Try 'ps xal' and see what's it doing.

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  Jussi

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