>> > Jose Rafael Carrero Leon (jrcl00@xxxxxxxxx) composed today: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a machine running in FC2 acting as a NFS server, sometimes the >> > machine goes down for an unknown reason, when the machine starts >> > again, and start the server, the clients can't mount the filesystems >> > and keeps telling me that the server is down. [...] > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:47:04 -0700 (PDT), netmask <netmask@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Do you have the service starting automatically on boot, or do you do it >> by >> hand? [...] On Tue, November 2, 2004 2:51, Jose Rafael Carrero Leon said: > the service starts on boot. [...] (post re-arranged to keep it somewhat readable) Guys, do us a favour please and don't top-post. Especially with long threads (which I guess this will be one ;) ), this is going to be a nightmare. Jose, I sometimes had a very similar issue. If your problem happens (which is ususally the case once your server goes down while your clients still have connections open), try this: - Stop the server & client services - On the server, remove all (/var/lib/nfs/* ?) files. Caution: I'm not in front of a Linux box now and only vaguely remember the path. It is under /var/.+/nfs though, I'm very sure. Don't remove it the first time but move it out instead. - start your server first, then your clients This problem went away since I changed to using automount for my NFS shares. HaJo -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
