Hello Tim,
Thanks for the valuable information.
I do have an NFS mount entry in my fstab
x.x.x.x:/path/to/dir /path/to/local/dir nfs
But it didn't affect the desktop or Nautilus this time. The system
mounts NFS at start-up if it is available. But when I restarted the
computer, NFS was still unavailable . I think I got an error message
during the start up process. After I restarted the desktop was restored
and I can now launch Nautilus. I don't know what exactly is the problem
with NFS server. It is actually not fixed till now(another mystery to be
solved). If I click the desktop shortcut icon to the NFS mounted folder,
Nautilus opens the folder with no contents in it.
I would be glad to implement on-demand mounting when the remote mounts
get accessed when intended. Could you provide any links which has step
by step instructions to do it?
Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:39 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
I'm using FC6 and GNOME. I had shortcut to an NFS shared folder on my
desktop. Today I clicked the shortcut folder icon on the desktop and
nautilus and desktop froze. I can't launch nautilus. The icons on the
desktop are not visible either. Nothing happens when I right click on
the desktop. Apparently the NFS server is down. I tried
CTRL+ALT+Backspace and then swithing to runlevel 3 and back to runlevel 5.
I still can't launch nautilus and my desktop is blackened. How can I
resolve this?
I've come across that before. I had to forcefully kill some mount
points to break it. Though I'm surprised you got that far, I'd found
it'd jam up long before I even got a desktop.
Now, I don't have NFS mounts where they might get read during start up
(desktop folders, menu entries), I use a sub-directory, where remote
mounts will only get accessed when I actually intend to.
e.g. ~/server/data
~/server/shared
^ remote mount
^sub-dir
Even trying to boot a system where you've got unreachable NFS mounts in
your fstab file can be a problem. For systems that aren't always on my
network, I gave up on that and made use of the auto-mounting system.
They're mounted on demand, when you try to access them through the /net/
folder.
e.g. /net/server-name/shared-folder-name
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With Warm Regards,
Sudheer. S
http://www.binaryvibes.co.in
