aledr wrote:

I got something similar, not yet found what happens. I'll try to find the cause today...

Thanks.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Philippe Andersson wrote:

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Hello list,

I migrated my home server to a new box (Dell PE2650) a couple of weeks ago. Installed with OS 11.2, 32bit, fully patched.

Problem: from time to time, the NFS server fails to fully start at boot. The "modprobe nfsd" has clearly happened, but the nfsd kernel threads are not present. Mount requests from clients are rejected with "RPC program not registered". If I then "rcnfssserver start" by hand, everything is started properly. I've looked at the logs, but there's no error message. The usual NFS startup entries are just not there.

Quick Google search hasn't turned anything up.

Has anyone else seen this ?

TIA

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.

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Glad to know I'm not the only one... Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com

On Miércoles 17 Marzo 2010 09:27:35 Philippe Andersson escribió:

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Hello list,

Hello...

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Problem: from time to time, the NFS server fails to fully start at boot.

Probably i am wrong but I solved similar problem 2 or 3 years ago. Is there any new service installed ? I installed the whole server only 2 or 3 weeks ago, but I don't remember adding a new service recently no. One boot, the NFS server starts

Hello Alfredo, Alfredo J. V. P. wrote: properly, the next it doesn't.

If your answer is yes, you've alter the sequence your daemons start on. My server on rc3 indicates S05nfs. try to change to S06 or 7 but never before network On OS 11.1, it seems the link is called rc5.d/S09nfsserver (checking on a comparable server on the corporate network here). I can check at home if the name is the same. But as far as I know, the OpenSuSE init scripts have their own way of handling the dependencies between themselves.

(Is your IP established when nfs try to start?) Looking at the sequence of events, yes. There may be delays between the card being configured and it being actually available, due to some negotiation with the switch, but since I use a non-manageable dumb switch, this shouldn't take very long.

Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com

To answer my own post; On 2010-03-17 09:27, Philippe Andersson wrote:

Hello list, Problem: from time to time, the NFS server fails to fully start at boot. The "modprobe nfsd" has clearly happened, but the nfsd kernel threads are not present. Mount requests from clients are rejected with "RPC program not registered". If I then "rcnfssserver start" by hand, everything is started properly. I've looked at the logs, but there's no error message. The usual NFS startup entries are just not there. I added a "sleep 5" instruction in /etc/init.d/nfsserver, at the very beginning of the "start" section. Since then, I've not had the problem any more.

Hope this can help someone else. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com