Re: NFS mounting errors

[Max Kamenetsky <maxk@chinook.stanford.edu>]

* Michael Heldebrant <Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu> [08/07/01 09:59] wrote:
> Are your network drivers compiled in or modules?  If modules are they
> autoloaded in /etc/modules?

They're compiled in.  I can see the network starting up way before the
portmapper and NFS mount requests are issued.  Besides, the strange
thing is that the first mount request fails but the second one and all
the ones thereafter (which happen immediately after the first) always
succeed.

Thanks,
    Max

> On 07 Aug 2001 09:47:53 -0700, Max Kamenetsky wrote:
> > Hi!
> >     Whenever I reboot my system, I get the following error from
> > /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh:
> > 
> > RPC: unable to receive, errno: no route to host
> > 
> > The result is that some NFS mount requests fail.  The funny thing is
> > that this happens for only the first directory I try to mount from a
> > particular host.  For example, if my /etc/fstab has entries
> > 
> > somehost:/dir1 /dir1 nfs rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,mountvers=3 0 0
> > somehost:/dir2 /dir2 nfs rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,mountvers=3 0 0
> >     
> > then the dir1 line will result in an error but the dir2 line will
> > succeed.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen anything similar and been able to debug it?  I do have
> > entries in /etc/hosts for all hosts from which I'm doing NFS mounts.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >     Max