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To: Marco Schwarz <marco.schwarz@gmx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serious Problems with diskless clients
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:53:08 -0200
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On 26 September 2002 08:26, Marco Schwarz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my diskless clients have some severe problems on one of my servers.
> Sometimes (right now most of the time) everything just hangs at the same
> place when starting up the kernel. Here are the last messages I get (right
> before this IP-Config is running and looks OK):
>
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0
> ds: no socket drivers loaded !
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.235
> portmap: server 192.168.0.235 mot responding, timed out !

Hook another box to the same network segment and run
ping or mtr to 192.168.0.235 and to the booting box.
Maybe your net drops packets or otherwise misbehaves.

BTW, 2.4.10 is way too old. 
I don't see "mot responding, timed out !" in 2.4.19
source, rather "not responding, timed out".
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vda
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