[techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

[Kristin Ziel]

Jeff--

I don't want this to come across as argumentative, so please do not take 
it that way...... 

I would never have thought that DNS had anything to do with mount
either...  this is the page that I came across and got that information .  
Perhaps the guy that wrote this wasn't clear on what the issue exactly was
either?

(see the "Found the Culprit!" section)
http://www.linuxcentral.com/linux/lg/issue43/tag/4.html

The device seems to work fine.....(could fdisk and mke2fs) and having
tried to mount different partitions, on two different drives (one of the
drives has the base filesystem / on it, just on a different partition...)
with the same results ( hangs at mount() ) leads me to believe that it is
not the drive ...

Kristin 

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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