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From: petri (Stefan Petri)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: login hangs when server dies
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.195215.4656@tubsibr.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 89 19:52:15 GMT
Sender: petri@tubsibr.uucp (Stefan Petri)
Reply-To: petri@tubsibr.UUCP (Stefan Petri)
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, W. Germany
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Configuration : Targon/35-M50 with TOS3.2 and NFS3.2
	(thats a clone of Pyramid 9810 OSx4.0 , I think)
	linked via ethernet to some Sun3/60 (SunOs 3.5 and 4.0.3)

Problem: when a nfs-servers dies, the `login' on all of his
clients will hang somewhere after displaying /etc/motd (saying nfs-server gargel
not responding, still trying) ; even if neither the user
nor the system needs (seems to need ? ) the files from that died
server. ( e.g. remote-mounted man-pages).

From the manuals I see that a process is supposed to hang, if it tries to
access a file from a nfs-server, but why does this happen at login-time ?
The Problem occurs on the Suns as well as on the Pyramid-clone, all running
sun-nfs.

HELP !

S.P.
--
Stefan Petri					
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Institut fuer Betriebssysteme und
Rechnerverbund, 3300 Braunschweig, W. Germany.