2002-08-28 08:57:06

by Marco.Schwarz

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Subject: AW: AW: URGENT: Problems with NFS-Root-Clients

> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Bogdan Costescu [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 27. August 2002 18:11
> An: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: AW: [NFS] URGENT: Problems with NFS-Root-Clients
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> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [email protected] wrote:
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> > it is not working most of the time, but sometime it is, and some
> > days ago it was the other way ... working most of the time, just
> sometimes
> > problems).
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> Hmm, maybe you should fix this first ! What do you mean by "not =
working":=20
> - sometimes it doesn't provide a link at boot time and you have to =
reboot=20
> and eventually it will get past the point and afterwards eveything =
works=20
> fine or
> - it boots fine and there are intermitent problems afterwards or
> - something else ?
[Schwarz, Marco (FAW-Exchange)] =20
Not Working: The client stops at the messages

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 !
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.235
portmap: server 192.168.0.235 mot responding, timed out !
Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default
mount: server 192.168.0.235 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting =
/netclients/192.168.0.87
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

and simply refuses to boot ... This is not happening on all the
clients, one some it is a little better, on some its not working at all =
...
clients in a second adress range (153.95.240.x) seem not to be affected =
at
all, only clients with local adresses ...

> > Network cards are Intel EEPro100, but we have a lot more of these =
(also
> with
> > diskless clients, same configuration/kernel), and the problem is
> happening
> > in just this one location ...
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> IIRC, there are different revisions of the cards, some of them having =

> some problems... so it's not sufficient to have another one working =
well !
[Schwarz, Marco (FAW-Exchange)] =20
I have about 30 cards here and 30 more in other places, so I think
it is save to rule out card problems, esp. since it is working when =
simply I
use my second adress range ... maybe its something with my =
configuration
which is wrong ...

> > Sending BOOTP requests . OK
> > IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.0.235, my adress is
> 192.168.0.87
> > IP-Config: Complete:
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> Um, the link did work ! Can you try to ping it from the server ? That =

> should show if the link is down. Another (better) possibility would =
be to=20
> turn on debugging in the network driver (change in source and =
recompile or
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> pass it on the kernel command line), but it depends on the driver =
that=20
> you're using. F.e. for Donald Becker's drivers you can use debug =
level 2=20
> or 3 to get media related information without getting too much=20
> uninteresting (for this problem) stuff
> Another unrelated suggestion: can you make sure that you're not =
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> any kind of firewall (ipchains/iptables) on the server that could =
block=20
> the communication ?
[Schwarz, Marco (FAW-Exchange)] =20
There are no firewalls on this server ...

Marco Schwarz

> --=20
> Bogdan Costescu
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