[mdlug] Kernel Woes/Issues

[Robert Adkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ron Blanchett
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:36 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Kernel Woes/Issues
> 
> 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.
> 

	NFS Support is in both kernels. I built the problem kernel, using
the config.gz extracted from the running kernel on the system. The only
change I made to the configuration was adding in the scsi driver module that
SuSe hadn't included in their last Stock Kernel, which had a problem with
the particular kernel level back when 9.2 was supported, this has
subsequently has been fixed and is included in at least the latest OpenSuSe.

> 
> 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.
> 

	That's the rub.

	I have seen no error messages with mounting the NFS Shares. In fact,
the shares show up as being mounted just fine and dandy. What happens is
that when attempting to login with a user account with the home that is
located on the NFS share, it just hardlocks that terminal session.

	The same thing happens when attempting to list the contents of one
of those home directories when logged in as root. CTL-C won't even kill the
command, I have to login via another terminal session and then kill the ls
command process to unfreeze the locked session.

	-Rob