Re: Sorry to mail you directly with a NFS question...

   [This is the first time I'm trying to use the new FreeBSD
list serer, and it is behaving really bizarrely - it stripped
out the attachment in my first message, and when I sent the
attachment in a subsequent email, it REPLACED my prior email
which has vanished. I'm trying to reconstruct what I said.
Fortunately I still have the hung terminal windows open so
I have that data.]

   I can easily reproduce this bug by editing a file on the
NFS filesystem, making a trivial change and doing "save and
exit" - instant hang.

   I gathered the data Rick requested which is in my previous
post.

   In another terminal window on the 13.2 system (165h) with
the hang, both filesystems show up, even after the hang:

(0:19) 165h:/tmp# df -h
Filesystem             Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
...
gate:/usr/local/src    7.7G    3.3G    3.8G    46%    /usr/local/src
gate:/sysprog           62G     22G     35G    39%    /sysprog
...

   In that other terminal window, I can create a file with
'touch' (and it is indeed created, looking at the directory
from other clients running 12.4). But any attempt to list
the directory results in a hang:

(0:22) 165h:/tmp# touch /usr/local/src/envir/foo
(0:23) 165h:/tmp# ls /usr/local/src/envir
load: 0.00  cmd: ls 97107 [nfs] 25.89r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2864k
load: 0.00  cmd: ls 97107 [nfs] 52.44r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2864k
load: 0.00  cmd: ls 97107 [nfs] 175.41r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2864k

   In yet another terminal window, a create + write (as opposed
to just a "touch") hangs:
(0:2) 165h:/sysprog/terry# echo "Testing 123" > /usr/local/src/envir/bar
load: 0.00  cmd: tcsh 97128 [nfs] 61.17r 0.02u 0.00s 0% 4248k
load: 0.01  cmd: tcsh 97128 [nfs] 2736.92r 0.02u 0.00s 0% 4248k

   From another 12.4 client that has the same filesystem mounted,
things continue to work normally:

(0:634) new-gate:~terry# echo "Testing 123" > /usr/local/src/envir/baz
(0:635) new-gate:~terry# cat /usr/local/src/envir/baz
Testing 123

   Based on this, I think it is a client-side problem on the
13.2 system.