Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!infbs!tubsibr!petri 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 Lines: 24 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 PetriTechnische Universitaet Braunschweig, Institut fuer Betriebssysteme und Rechnerverbund, 3300 Braunschweig, W. Germany.