Re: mountd keeps vanishing (!)

[kimminau () garnet msen com (Eric Kimminau)]

Is it just me or does this sound like he has run out of NFSD's?

On Wed, 11 Jan 1995, Eric Berggren wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 22:04:19 -0800
> From: Eric Berggren <eric () ee pdx edu>
> To: bugtraq () fc net
> Subject: mountd keeps vanishing (!)
>
>   we have a host that is creating many problems as it's mountd stops
> responding to requests (and mucking up automounters all over). the
> process is still running but "rpcinfo -u hostname 100005" results
> in :
>
>       rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
>       program 100005 version 0 is not available
>
>   it's an SS2 running 4.1.3 with the following patches (among many others) :
>
>     100173-10   NFS Jumbo Patch
> P s 100249-09   automounter jumbo patch
>
>   this would happen various hosts on rare occasions, but this box has now
> done this 6 times within the last 2 days (it's a lab support box) with
> anywhere from minutes to hours between occurences. the major problem is
> that other hosts go ballistic during this time, including the central
> fileservers.
>
>
>   it's hard to figure out exactly what's happening as by the time it's
> noticed, the machine itself is inaccessible to logins and many other
> commands. we may try enabling full accounting (to whatever effect).
>
>   anyone seen this or have any insight ? unfortunately, the automounter
> is a critical part of our setup.
>
>   thanx!
>
> -eric
>
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> -                         Portland State University                         -
> Eric Berggren                           Janaka Jayawardena
> Administrator, CS/EE                    Director of Computer Services, CS/EE
> eric () ee pdx edu                         janaka () ee pdx edu

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