nfs not responding

[Nicolas Courtel]

Hello,

Le 10/06/2014 02:41, Peter Keller a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have a question:
>
> Sometimes, maybe 2% of the time, when FAI 4.2 finishes installing and is
> shutting down to reboot, I get into a state where messages are logged to
> the screen about NFS not responding, and then ok, and then not responding,
> and then ok, and so on. They repeat every 5 minutes or so. The machine
> stays in this state and never actually reboots causing a manual interrupt in
> the automated install. The NFS server, AFAICT, was ok the whole time.
> The faiserver is a wheezy machine and I'm not using nfs 4.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before?
>
>
I've seen this on a slow link, and solved it by reducing the size of the 
NFS packets:

fai-chboot ... -k "nfsopts=-orsize=65536,wsize=65536" ...

This might work even if the problem is not related to network performance.

-- 
Nicolas