NFS mount temporarily hangs during %post

[Marc Wiatrowski]

Used to have the same problem.  Try kicking off portmap before you try 
to mount anything in pre.

Step 2.5: /etc/init.d/portmap start

marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Carl 
> Pecinovsky
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 5:13 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: NFS mount temporarily hangs during %post
> 
> Hi. I am new to the list and have a question about behavior I 
> am seeing
> during post-install of RHEL 3 U3.  In the kickstart %post 
> section I have a
> script that does several things including:
> 
> 1. create mount-point dir
> 2. mount nfs dir
> 3. run script in the directory
> 
> The "mount" operation always hangs for a while, and then it 
> completes and
> things continue fine from there.  I put echo statements 
> around the mount
> and found it always hangs for 5 and a half minutes.  I traced 
> the network
> traffic and found the server is responding as expected to the 
> mount and
> several NFS requests before there is the 5.5 min delay until the next
> request comes in.
>