re: Are these problems being fixed???

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Sam Azer wrote:

> I have a bunch of dead tasks on my Seawolf 7.1 system (another system
> running 7.2 is doing fine.) The tasks all died while trying to read a
> directory that was NFS mounted from the 7.2 system.
...
> Can anybody tell me what I can do to get rid of these dead tasks and fix the
> stuck NFS mount point? With the SMB/Password problem, correcting the
> password and restarting SMB solved the problem. I'm out of ideas for NFS.

Mount the NFS filesystems with the "hard" and "intr" options, or else use 
"soft".

See the nfs(5) man page for more information.

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