Re: KDE/Konqeror - mounting NFS export hangs Konquerer and K-MenuI
Hello Anders,
I have the NFS export mounted to /mnt/athlon/ with a link on the KDE-Desktop.
I have it set users in fstab so I can mount it from there, which takes a
while until it comes up. All other attempts to start Konqueror after that,
from a Home link on the Desktop for instance, take very long. K-Panel does
not respond until Konqeror comes back.
From console i.e. without even logging into the xserver, the mount takes long,
and I get an error "RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5)", but the mount
is ok and I can move through directories and copy files or directories in
both directions normally.
BTW: Back a few weeks ago, when I first tried to get this system working I
also tried an smb mount, cause I already had the samba server set up for Win
clients. It locked up my client system. So did an attempt with cifs, so this
has been a long, long ordeal. Not really much fun. On top of that I had to
figure out that the orinoco driver isn't stable with the Prism 2.5 wlan card
in my laptop, so that I am now using a pcmcia card with the Prism54
module....
Thanks for your suggestions.
Chris
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:59, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> It sounds very familiar to a problem I couldn't solve, when I was still
> using SMB/samba. I would attempt connecting to my server, which would work
> fine. However browsing through a directory with a long file list, would
> hang the process that was attempting it.
> I assume that the mount point of your NFS share is at a place where
> Konqueror will look when it comes up. I also assume that your syslog is
> rather informationless, as the system would probably time out at some
> point.
>
> If your problem, that makes the system unusable is, that you cannot use
> Konqueror on your local machine (and not only on the NFS mount), you could
> attempt mounting the NFS share at some other point in the filesystem, so
> you don't have to wait for it to come out of the hang.
>
> Otherwise you would probably need to debug the connection itself. I tried
> searching a bit around, and I don't know whether it could be of any help.
>
> http://sysadminforums.com/t206.html
> http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=nfs+hangs
> http://www.wlug.org.nz/NFSNotes
>
> I am really no expert, but you seem desperate enough for me to attempt
> helping. :)
>
> Regards, Anders Breindahl.
>
> On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:17, C. Hurschler wrote:
> > I've done some reading and tried to figure out how to get name resolution
> > working or whether it is even broken. I can ping the server and the
> > client (127.0.0.1) itself. I *can* mount the NFS share and everything
> > works fine
>
> in
>
> > console on the client machine, only Konqueror/KDE hangs.
> >
> > Can't anyone suggest something, even if combined with a personal insult
> > for asking stupid question (I can take it!). I'd really, really like to
> > work on this machine, but cant't in it's present state.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Friday 07 January 2005 16:47, C. Hurschler wrote:
> > > On Friday 07 January 2005 14:49, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > On Friday 07 January 2005 14:44, C. Hurschler wrote:
> > > > > The problem: in KDE, Konqueror takes a long time (over a minute)
> > > > > to start and the KDE-Panel hangs until Konqueror comes up. Once
>
> Konqueror
>
> > > > > comes is up I can move through directories in the NFS mount and
> > > > > transfer files fine. New instances of Konqeror also take a while to
> > > > > come up, both of the NFS mount and of Home.
> > > >
> > > > Can you check if the system's hostname can be resovled by /etc/hosts?
> > > > Preferably by having it as an alias for 127.0.0.1
> > >
> > > Sorry, but I don't know what you mean by "can the hostname be resolved
> > > by /etc/hosts".
> > >
> > > I don't have any hosts listed in /ets/hosts on the server, just what
> > > was there by default:
> > >
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost athlon
> > >
> > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> > > # (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
> > >
> > > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> > >
> > > fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> > > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> > > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> > > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> > > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> > >
> > > on the client I'm using the ip address of the server in fstab for the
> > > NFS mount because it couldn't resolve the server hostname otherwise.
> > > Is this normal or am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Chris
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C. Hurschler
Bodenstedtstr. 13
30173 Hannover
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