[K12OSN] migration question - nfs freezing?

[Petre Scheie]

I had a similar problem with an older client that was running an ISA 3Com NIC over coax. 
  Jim McQuillan pointed me to http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NFS to fix the 
problem.  Also, this past weekend, I tried out an old 486 with a PCI NIC (with a RealTek 
8139 chip) that had similar symptoms when it was connected to my 100Mbit switch.  I 
moved it to an old 10Mbit hub, which then had an upstream link to the 100Mbit switch to 
which the server was connected, and then it worked fine.  HTH

Petre

Antonello Facchetti wrote:
> I'm migrating my server to k12ltsp 4.2.1 (fc3), from a previous 4.0.1 
> (fc1).
> The server has got a new gigabit nic for the terminal and a fast nic for 
> the network outside.
> I did a standard installation (no tweaking at all, just set ip addresses)
> When I try to connect a client this is correctly recognized, it gets 
> it's ip address from dhcp but it freezes after this message:
> 
> mounting root filesystem from /opt/ltsp/i386
> doing the pivot_root
> nfs: server 192.168.1.254 not responding. trying again
> 
> meanwhile /var/log/messages in the server says:
> 
> rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.7 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
> 
> I suppose it's a problem with nfs, but I have touched nothing in the 
> server (as i said, a smooth standard install)
> 
> I thought it might be a problem with gigabit nic, but the net works 
> (dhcp did his work).
> 
> Nfs is running as a service
> 
> Did I forget anything?
> 
> tia
> Antonello
> 
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