[mdlug] Kernel Woes/Issues

[Ron Blanchett]

What versions of NFS are you running on the different systems.
I could be wrong but I don't think that older versions of the NFS
client can connect to the newer server versions.

Also make sure that you have enabled NFS support in the kernel on the
system that you are having the NFS connection problems on.

-Ron

p.s. send any error output from either the console or the system logs
from said trioubled system that relate to the NFS mount issue.

On 12/28/07, Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org
> > > [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Raymond McLaughlin
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:55 PM
> > > To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> > > Subject: Re: [mdlug] Kernel Woes/Issues
> > >
> > > Robert Adkins wrote:
> > >
> > > >   So, I built the kernel, the modules, did the install,
> > > rebooted the
> > > > server and chose the new kernel... Got an error message.
> > The error
> > > > referred to something about "subfs" and caused a failure
> > during the
> > > > init process, which appears to be related to the ext3fs.
> > >
> > > The precise wording of this message would be helpful.
> > >
> >
> >       I have found out more about the subfs issue:
> >
> >       1. Commenting out the lines for the removable media has
> > eliminated this error.
> >
> >       2. There is a subfs module out there that I can rebuild
> > to work with the new kernel, since the only subfs systems
> > were the CD-ROM and the Floppy drive, this isn't a very
> > serious need to do at this time.
> >
> >       I am still having some issues with the new kernel.
> > Which I believe is related to NFS.
> >
> >       Currently, I am running two servers:
> >
> >       1. Email, Proxy, DHCP, NFS Share of /home
> >
> >       2. Samba Domain Controller, File backup, Mounts
> > server1's /home as the local /home (in order to backup the
> > users home directories to backup the IMAP shares.)
> >
> >       The primary issue that the server now has is that when
> > I go to log into the server, using a user account, the login
> > process completely hangs.
> > Logging in as the root user, I can go into the /home and see
> > the user directories. However, I am unable to cd into or ls
> > the contents of those directories. Checking the logs, there
> > are no error messages, just a plain hardlock of that
> > particular console session. (Which I am able to kill.)
> >
> >       -Rob
> >
>
>         A little additional information:
>
>         1. I have rebuilt the kernel for an OpenSuSe 10.3 test server using
> the default options from the stock kernel and this server is able to mount
> the NFS share from "Server1" read/write, without issue.
>
>         -Rob
>
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