Clearing hung programs
If programs hang while doing file-related work, your NFS server may be
dead. You may see the following message on your console:
NFS server hostname not responding, still trying
This message indicates that NFS server hostname is down, or
that there is a problem with the server or with the network.
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If your machine hangs completely, check the server(s) from which you
mounted the resource. If one or more are down, do not be concerned. When
the server comes back up, programs resume automatically. No files are
destroyed if the resource was hard mounted (see
``Hard and soft mounts'').
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If you soft-mount a resource and the server dies, other work should not
be affected. Programs that time out trying to access soft mounted remote
files will fail with
errno ETIMEDOUT
, but you should still
be able to access other resources.
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If all servers are running, ask someone else using these same servers
if they are having trouble. If more than one machine is having problems
getting service, there is a problem with the server:
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Log in to the server.
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Use
nfsping -o nfsd to see if nfsd is running.
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Enter ps -ef | grep nfsd a few times to see if nfsd is
accumulating CPU time (let some time pass between each call).
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If it is not accumulating CPU time, you may be able to kill and
then restart nfsd. If this does not work, you have to reboot
the server.
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If nfsd
is not running, it may be that the server has been taken to an init state
that does not support file sharing. Use who -r to obtain the
server's current init state.
If other systems seem to be up and running, check your network connection
and the connection of the server.
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If programs on the client are hung but the server is up, NFS requests
to the server other than reads and writes are succeeding, and messages
of the form
xdr_opaque: encode FAILED
are appearing on either the client or the server console, you may be
requesting more data than the underlying transport provider can provide.
Try remounting the filesystem using the
-o rsize=nnn,wsize=nnn options to
mount to restrict the request sizes the client will generate.
The maximum rsize and wsize, which is also the
default, is 8 KB.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004