From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:11:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:11:41 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:21471 "EHLO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:11:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:14:07 +0200 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: NFS-root NFS mouting problem Message-ID: <20020701131407.GA19843@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm trying to net-boot a system (root NFS) here, but I run into trouble mounting NFS filesystems *after* the root filesystem has been mounted (over NFS). Both server and client are 2.4.18 on i686 - everything works great if I boot from a disk and mount the home filesystem via. NFS. Booting the client via. pxelinux, the following happens: *) Kernel loads, gets IP, ... *) / is mounted (rw) via NFS *) Init-scripts start running, brings up eth0, lo, portmapper, syslog, NFS locking services, all is ok... *) Init-scripts attempt to mount the home filesystem from the server, just like it would if booting from the disk. This fails with the following errors: -------------------------- Mounting NFS filesystems: exec: Stale NFS handle mount: Stale NFS handle exec: Stale NFS handle touch: creating '/var/lock/subsys/netfs': Stale NFS handle Mounting other filesystems: exec: Stale NFS handle dup2: Bad file descriptor exec: Stale NFS handle -------------------------- I tried net-booting to single-user mode, which works perfectly well. Then, mounting *any* NFS filesystem will lock the system with stale NFS handles again. The *really* interesting thing is, that after one such failed attempt, I must re-start the NFS *server*, otherwise the client gets a "Root-NFS server returned error -13 while mounting /netboot/falcon"... But I suppose this problem will go away with the first one. Anything I can try ? Any ideas ? Need more information ? -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: