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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:59:13PM +0200, Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
> Hi, =20
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> I'm experiencing very annoying NFS problems with NetBSD. =20
>  =20
> It happens often that a mounted NFS share just breaks down, for a reason =
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> that I cannot understand, because the connection is still up, I can ping,=
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> ftp, telnet whatever between the two computers, but the NFS connection we=
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> completely dead. Every process using the share turns into a zombie and ca=
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> even be killed. umount -f does not work (and turns into a non-killable =
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> zombie). Only solution is to hard-reboot the computer (can't even be =20
> rebooted by the "reboot" commando, just hangs at the shutdown scripts). =
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>  =20

I've had this problem as well.  I have no solution for it, but there is a
workaround:
Just restart the server NFS processes, the client will come back to life ag=
ain.

Regards,
Peter
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