Unable to connect to NFS Server - mountd crashing

DISCUSSION Mark A. Tagliaferro 1 participant 2 messages Oct 9, 2003 1 message not in the archive

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Mark A. Tagliaferro

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2003-10-09 08:42 UTC #1 lore raw

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is a reverse lookup? Anyway I did not change any settings. The NFS server has been working happily for the last year and a half. The only thing that changed was that the hardrive containing the data i want to share was not in the server because there were some bad sector problems. I copied the data onto another harddrive and inserted the new harddrive.

I tried removing it again but still montd is crashing.

Mark
--- Matt Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you just change the reverse
lookup on the IP of the client or server?

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They have to match you know.
If you just added a reverse lookup and not a forward lookup sometimes it will do this.
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Tagliaferro" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 4:51 AM
Subject: [NFS] Unable to connect to NFS Server - mountd crashing
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Hi all,
This is driving me nuts because up to yesterday the system was working but suddenly it went berserk. I'm trying to connect to m NFS shares on my
SuSE 7.1
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server and I'm getting the following error:
mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errorno = Connection refused
After a lot of investigation I stumbled on what is happening. When the
nfs
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server is started, 'nfsserver status' gives me 'NFS Server is up'. When I check with rpcinfo -p server I see portmap, mountd, nfs and ypbind (i'm
using

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NIS as well which is still working).
When I try to connect from the client and get the error message something really weird happens on the server. 'nfsserver status' returns 'NFS server down' and rpcinfo -p server doesn't show mountd anymore.
I figure that somehow when the call is made mountd is crashing thus
shutting
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down the nfs server.
Any idea of why this is happening or how to solve it?
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Mark A. Tagliaferro

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2003-10-09 09:20 UTC #2 lore raw

Well I'll be darned.

This morning I've tried once again to solve things and lo and behold the error has changed now!!!

Now I'm getting "RPC Error : Timed Out" when I try to mount and the NFS server is managing to stay up. I can't understand why though because the servers are communicating otherwise. Even "rpcinfo -p server" is working.

Mark

--- "Mark A. Tagliaferro" <[email protected]> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance,
but what exactly is a reverse lookup? Anyway I did not

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change any settings. The NFS server has been working happily for the last year
and a half. The only thing that changed was that the hardrive containing the data i want to share was not in the server because there were some bad sector problems. I copied the data onto another harddrive and inserted the new harddrive.
I tried removing it again but still montd is crashing.
Mark
--- Matt Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you just change the reverse
lookup on the IP of the client or server?
Quoted 4 lines
They have to match you know.
If you just added a reverse lookup and not a forward lookup sometimes it will do this.
Quoted 13 lines
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Tagliaferro" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 4:51 AM
Subject: [NFS] Unable to connect to NFS Server - mountd crashing
Quoted 3 lines
Hi all,
This is driving me nuts because up to yesterday the system was working
but
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suddenly it went berserk. I'm trying to connect to m NFS shares on my
SuSE 7.1
Quoted 5 lines
server and I'm getting the following error:
mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errorno = Connection refused
After a lot of investigation I stumbled on what is happening. When the
nfs
Quoted 1 line
server is started, 'nfsserver status' gives me 'NFS Server is up'. When
I
Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 1 line
check with rpcinfo -p server I see portmap, mountd, nfs and ypbind (i'm
using
Quoted 4 lines
NIS as well which is still working).
When I try to connect from the client and get the error message something really weird happens on the server. 'nfsserver status' returns 'NFS
server
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down' and rpcinfo -p server doesn't show mountd anymore.
I figure that somehow when the call is made mountd is crashing thus
shutting
Quoted 17 lines
down the nfs server.
Any idea of why this is happening or how to solve it?
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