Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday, 16 November 2023 20:38:45 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:29:19 CET Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > My little server needs help with compiling, so I NFS-export /var (which
> > has
> > its own partition) to a chroot on my workstation. I mount all the
> > partitions on both server and workstation. Then when I chroot, env-update
> > hangs for ever. Well, over an hour anyway.
> > 
> > Is it possible to export /var in this way? I can't see anything else
> > wrong.
> 
> I don't see why it shouldn't work, but there's a couple commands I use to
> debug NFS. They're not *great*, but they work.
> 
> I haven't used Gentoo in a while so I forget exactly what env-update does,
> but I assume mounting the network share works successfully and this is just
> a command that accesses /var.
> 
> You can use these commands to make the kernel driver output debugging
> information to dmesg.
> 
> On the client:
> > # rpcdebug -m nfs -s all
> 
> On the server:
> > # rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all
> 
> On both sides, if the others don't give useful info, this is for the lower
> 
> level protocol:
> > # rpcdebug -m rpc -s all
> 
> Then, try running the command again. It will spew a lot of info but
> hopefully you can figure out from it what's going on.

I'll try that - thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.