Used to have the same problem. Try kicking off portmap before you try to mount anything in pre. Step 2.5: /etc/init.d/portmap start marc > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl > Pecinovsky > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 5:13 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: NFS mount temporarily hangs during %post > > Hi. I am new to the list and have a question about behavior I > am seeing > during post-install of RHEL 3 U3. In the kickstart %post > section I have a > script that does several things including: > > 1. create mount-point dir > 2. mount nfs dir > 3. run script in the directory > > The "mount" operation always hangs for a while, and then it > completes and > things continue fine from there. I put echo statements > around the mount > and found it always hangs for 5 and a half minutes. I traced > the network > traffic and found the server is responding as expected to the > mount and > several NFS requests before there is the 5.5 min delay until the next > request comes in. >
