[techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

[Jeff Dike]

zoop at scc.net said:
> i've  traced the command using strace, and found that it hangs right
> on the the  mount() system call.  

If the mount syscall is hanging, then DNS can't have anything to do with it (I 
don't think even in the case of NFS, because the kernel doesn't know about 
resolv.conf).

> i cannot kill the process (am using -9).

If you do a ps on it, its state is 'D'.  This is a disk wait, which is 
supposed to be very temporary.  I guess it sent some request off to the disk 
and the disk never responded.

So, if I were you, I'd look at the device.  Are there any diags you can run?  
Any complaints in the message log?

				Jeff