[K12OSN] NFS failed after power failure

Timothy Legge tlegge at rogers.com
Tue Aug 30 14:01:49 UTC 2005


--- Doug Simpson <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us> wrote:

> Howdy. . .
> 
> Wierd problem . . . We had a power failure the other
> day due to a SysCo 
> food truck and a telephone cable getting in a fight
> and after the power 
> was restored, this server will no longer start NFS.
> 
> I can reboot and it will get to the line that says
> Starting NFS and sit 
> there for the rest of your life.  I did run the fsck
> when the server was 
> starting so I don't think there is a filesystem
> error.
> 
> I did chkconfig nfs off to make it not load on
> bootup, but NFS isn't 
> loading so terminals won't start from it this way.
> 
> Server is FC3 and standard K12LTSP install with
> custom configurations in 
> samba and etc.  All was working great until the
> power failure.
> 
> Any ideas where to look for why NFS won't restart?

I always say that the first thing I check when a Linux
server is misbehaving is disk space.  Unfortunately I
am normally 20 minutes into the issue and running out
of options before I remember ;-)

Also, I have seen nfs have problems starting when
there was network issues on its interface...

Tim




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