NFS mount hangs

Premium · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Germany

Hi

I've a problem mounting a NFS share from a Redhat Linux Server...

After my
mount -t nfs 192.168.1.214:/tmp/knoppix/cdrom /tmp/localdir

this mount command hangs... changing to another console the mounted local dir is empty. The server log file looks normal.

After I manually kill the process [rpciod] I get an "Interrupted" on the mount console and the local mount dir is there! What's wrong?
I already tried kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4.20, NFS v3 is enabled...

Any hints?
Thanks,
Premium

mlom · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 11

Have you started portmap and mountd ?

/Mats

Premium · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Germany

Do I need portmap and mountd on both the client and server side??

I don't think I need on the client, portmap and rpc.mountd are running on the server...

Strange is that it works after a "kill -9" to the rpciod-task

mlom · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 11

See: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/client.html

Yo do need portmapper, lockd and statd running on the client..

/Mats

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:16 pm Post subject:

You do not need those tools, although it is recommended.

You can also mount using the "-o nolock" option. So "mount -t nfs -o nolock server:/path /otherpath" should work without hanging the process and without having those tools installed on the clients.

al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

I have my gentoo box mount my nfs Suse server box on boot by adding the following line to my /etc/fstab file:

server:/home/al /mnt/nfs nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

I can't remember where i put the nfs export line in the suse box-i looked in /etc/exports but it's not there.

If you know where i should be looking then i'll look it up for you