From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Diskless boot problems Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:32:03 -0500 Message-ID: <1131982323.8870.22.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EbgJs-00037P-4u for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:32:32 -0800 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1EbgJo-0007X1-U5 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:32:32 -0800 To: Jeremy Sanders In-Reply-To: Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 14:55 +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > We have a set of clients which boot over the network, and mount their root > file systems over NFS from a server. All systems run linux-2.6.9-22 > (Scientific Linux 4.1, a RHEL clone). > > Occasionally the system breaks. For some reason some of the clients > produce errors in the logs like: > > portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out > RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). > portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out > RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). > portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out > RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). > lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 > portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out > RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). > lockd_up: no pid, 2 users?? So what is the portmap daemon doing when this happens? Is it running? Is it dead? Is it hanging? Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs