[CentOS] Problem with NFS mount after upgrade to 4.4

Mon Oct 2 14:10:39 UTC 2006
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 02/10/2006 alle 15.32 +0200, Ralph Angenendt ha
> scritto: 
> > Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> > > Il giorno lun, 02/10/2006 alle 14.52 +0200, Ralph Angenendt ha
> > > scritto: 
> > > > Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> > > > > Oct  2 11:47:28 s2 mount: System Error: No route to host.
> > > > But it looks like a network problem to me. You seem to be
> > > > trying to mount the shares *before* the network is up and the
> > > > NFS server is reachable.
> > > 
> > > No because in the runlevel the network is up before that netfs
> > > start: 
> > > 
> > > S10network -> ../init.d/network
> > > ...
> > > S25netfs -> ../init.d/netfs
> > > 
> > > I can see also during the boot process on the screen, network
> > > start first.
> > 
> > Some iptables rules acting up? No idea what else it could be - the
> > no route to host just screams for non-availability of the network.
> 
> Thanks Ralph, but i have made all possible test:
> 
> iptables is stop
> network is available
> set a sleep before to run netfs...
> 
> The NFS is in the same network(mask).

How about a simple sanity check in the startup script?

    ping -c 4 192.168.140.13

Put that in before you attempt to mount the filesystem to make sure
there aren't network problems.

-- 
Bowie