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From: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: BUG IN NFS CLIENT ON NETBSD
Date: 14 May 1993 06:51:46 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions 
Subject: BUG IN NFS CLIENT ON NETBSD, HOW DO I SOLVE IT?
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Distribution: world
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Keywords: NFS, HANG, NOT RESPONDING, HELP, PLEASE!


	Hello net world.  I have a problem with my new NetBSD installation
which I can't figure out. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them my
way via e-mail to: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu


Problem: When I try to nfs mount a filesystem from a remote fileserver, it
mounts fine, but any sizable reads from that filesystem subsequent to the
mount hang forever.  The message, "nfs server host.foo.bar: not responding"
is generated once, but then nothing happens for the following day and a
half, or until the machine is forceably re-booted with the re-set key.
Note that reboot doesn't work, because the process in disk wait can't be
killed with signal 15.

Description of machine:
The machine is a 386DX running at 25MHZ with 8-MB of real memory, 32MB of
swap, an Adaptech 1542A SCSI controller, a NE-1000 or 2000 clone, I don't
know which, and a 1.2 MB floppy disk.
Note that telnet, rlogin and rsh work fine.  In fact, anything TCP works as
well.  The Nameserver udp calls also work.

Thank you again for any suggestions/fixes/comments.
-Brian <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>