Hello everyone,
I have an odd problem to report, and I must admit to being
completely baffled on this one.
Last weekend the building next door on the campus was
scheduled for electrical updates, and so at 9:15AM they
promptly shut down the power - unfortunately they
cut the power to the WRONG building!
Now, on Monday morning I arrived to find my AlphaServer
1000 (running DU 3.2C) at the boot prompt. On rebooting
it ran through the expected fsck and appeared to 'fix'
a file or two (the message was only on the screen for
a split second - so I didn't get the full details, and
I'm darned if I can find it in any logs - am I looking
in the right place?). Anyway, during the rest of the boot
the machine hung after reporting 'ONC portmap service
started'. I pressed CTRL-C and the rest of the boot
process continued fine.
On investigating I found the hang to be on the call
to 'nfs start'. Well, a few echo comments added here and
there showed that the hang was occurring on the call to
'/usr/sbin/mountd -i -n' (same thing happens on the
command line). I checked the /etc/exports file and
the /var/adm/mountdtab file and they both seemed OK -
I even recovered a copy of mountd off backup in
the assumption that it was corrupted (it wasn't).
And thats it. I'm stumped. Am I looking at the
real problem or is this just a symptom of something
much larger?
Any help would be appreciated - failing that, has anyone
got a baseball bat so I can knock seven bells out of the
electrician? ;-)
Yours,
mark
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Mark S. Burrell ADAM Technical Officer
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Historical and Critical Studies Dept. Tel:+44(0)191 2273704
University of Northumbria mailto:mark_at_adam.ac.uk
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK http://adam.ac.uk/~mark
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Received on Thu Oct 23 1997 - 21:24:03 NZDT