On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > Trond Myklebust wrote: > >> [ 442.666622] NFS: failed to create MNT RPC client, status=-60 >> [ 442.666732] NFS: unable to mount server 137.226.167.241, error -60 >> [ 442.666868] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. >> [ 442.667032] VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER >> > Error 60 is ETIMEDOUT on SPARC, so it seems that the problem is > basically the same one that you see in your 2.6.32 trace (rpcbind: > server 137.226.167.241 not responding, timed out) except that now it is > a fatal error. > > Any idea why the first RPC calls might be failing here? A switch > misconfiguration or something like that perhaps? > > Wasn't there a change in the way nfs mount options are handled by the kernel > for nfsroot about the time of 2.6.39? Something about changing from default > udp to tcp maybe? There was a change, but it was changed back to UDP because of problems like this. Behavior in 3.0 or the latest 2.6.39 stable kernel may be improved. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
