Bug 32531

Summary:	FBSD 4.3 init freezes on NFS mounts
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Alexander Ewering <a.ewering>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.3-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Alexander Ewering 2001-12-05 10:10:01 UTC

When there are NFS mounts in /etc/fstab and the network the NFS server
resides on is unreachable at boot time (but may become reachable at
a later point, for example, when starting ppp), the boot sequence
completely stops at 'Mounting NFS filesystems'. It did still sit
there after an hour, with some error messages from RPC:
'RPC: unable to send.'
This is not particularly good in some circumstances where the box is not
attended and rebooted remotely.

Fix: 

Not known, haven't thought about it :)
How-To-Repeat: Add an NFS share to fstab on a non-reachable network.

Comment 1 iedowse freebsd_committer

2001-12-05 10:39:23 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Not a bug. The default for NFS mounts is to wait forever if the 
server isn't responding, but for any non-critical filesystems, you 
can add ",-b" to the options field in /etc/fstab. The man page for 
mount_nfs has further details.