NFS Emergency - RPC and NFSD online but no connection??

[Kaya Saman]

Ok :-)

All is well.......

That was fast and quick thinking by myself I do say :-P

Now to limit Darkice's load on the system??



On 05/24/2010 12:54 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Actually a bit more scanning shows Darkice is using 100% of the CPU 
> for some reason?
>
> I've commented it out in /etc/rc.conf and initiated a restart so I 
> hope that, the lower load average will make the system start accepting 
> connections again which is a plausible cause for my issue.
>
> After testing I will have more information to share, hopefully it will 
> work.
>
> If that's the case I will look at limiting CPU horsepower per 
> application so that my lowly system has some room left to compute 
> other things too.
>
>
>
> On 05/24/2010 12:33 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> this is a really interesting yet annoying issue I'm having.....
>>
>> I had a fully working NFS setup until earlier today when I had a 
>> failed attempt at recovering an external hard disk that I fitted into 
>> my system internally.
>>
>> Now this disk has nothing to do with the system and is used with 
>> Linux hence it runs the ext3 filesystem but since the BSD machine is 
>> the only desktop I have I thought it a good idea to recover from there.
>>
>> Anyhow, I removed the drive and in the mean time compiled 
>> Transmission bit torrent client from ports and a failed attempt to 
>> compile Amule2 with a dependency failing to compile; if memory serves 
>> me well I think it was cryptopp or something with pp at the end 
>> anyway. Sorry for lack of stating on here if it necessary I will find 
>> this out and post it immediately.
>>
>> Well.... just to say now that I can't mount what I used to be able to 
>> mount before.
>>
>> I built a little shell script so that I didn't need to use fstab from 
>> my Linux box and all I get as response is this:
>>
>> :~# ./BSD2.sh
>> mount.nfs: mount system call failed
>>
>> Syntax in shell script is:
>>
>> mount -t nfs -o rw 172.16.0.200:/mnt/SATA /mnt/BSD2
>>
>> I have checked the logs on the server /var/log/messages only there 
>> isn't any information at all being given??
>>
>> From BSD if I try to restart or stop nfsd or mountd I get this:
>>
>> rd1# /etc/rc.d/nfsd stop
>> Stopping nfsd.
>> ^C
>>
>> rd1# /etc/rc.d/mountd restart
>>
>> which has held there for  a while now meaning that it's probably 
>> crashed or something?
>>
>> Netstat claims everything is online:
>>
>> rd1# netstat -ap udp
>> Active Internet connections (including servers)
>> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address       
>> (state)
>> udp4       0      0 *.*                    *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.tftp                 *.*
>> udp4       0      0 localhost.ntp          *.*
>> udp6       0      0 localhost.ntp          *.*
>> udp6       0      0 fe80:3::1.ntp          *.*
>> udp4       0      0 rd1.ntp                *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.ntp                  *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.ntp                  *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.nfsd                 *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.nfsd                 *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.836                  *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.836                  *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.*                    *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.653                  *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.sunrpc               *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.760                  *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.sunrpc               *.*
>> udp4       0      0 localhost.domain       *.*
>> udp4       0      0 rd1.domain             *.*
>> udp4       0      0 *.syslog               *.*
>> udp6       0      0 *.syslog               *.*
>>
>> and I don't have any firewall in place at all!!
>>
>> Output of uname -a:
>>
>> rd1# uname -a
>> FreeBSD rd1.optiplex-networks.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: 
>> Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009     
>> root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>> The system is a 32bit PIV running at 2.4GHz with 480MB of RAM.
>>
>> Really I'm not sure what to do if I need to upgrade NFS as one of 
>> it's dependencies has been upgraded or something else as it's just 
>> not working??
>>
>> Actually I've just typed in exit after su - 'ing to root from an SSH 
>> session and the session looks like it's hung on me...??
>>
>> Also I've had the system running into kernel panic and restarting a 
>> lot earlier as the load average went up is what logwatch seems to show.
>>
>> Can anyone help me out of this dilemma??
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kaya
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