[Techtalk] Slow booting since installing NFS daemons

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

Hi There,


Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 23:13 +0200, Anne Wainwright a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Since installing the NFS daemons on my Ubuntu testbed Athene boot up is interrupted from the Ubuntu 'things are happening' sliding bar display.
> 
> We drop into text screen boot mode and a prominently marked [fail] in red ends the line "* Starting NFS common utilities".
> 
> Somewhat lower down the screen this appears a second time, so tried and failed again.
> 
> Then the whole boot process halts with a flashing '_' at the message "* Starting NFS kernel daemon"
> 
> When this first happened I thought I was cooked. But today with it decorating the screen as I stared pondering what to do, after about 2 or 3 minutes the processe was marked [ok] and off it went to finish the boot process.
> 
> And, yes, if you followed my other post on NFS, I am still able to read from this machine (Athene) the NFS share set up on my laptop (Pandora) but set up NFS on Athene to work the other way round if I wanted. I realise that NFS on Athene is not needed to read a share on Pandora.
> 
> I worry about the long wait, something is not right. Any ideas?
> 

Just an idea in the morining : couldn't it be a 'simple' name resolution
problem (i.e. DNS issue) ?
Check for things in /etc/hosts in worse case.

bye,

R. Daneel Olivaw,
The Human Robot Inside