[Novalug] NFS Mount Problem

[Dan Arico]

I'm having a problem with NFS that has me stumped.

On one computer, I have a directory called /work4 that contains a 
collection of databases used by several other machines. On boot-up, this 
directory is exported using NFS. On four machine, this directory is 
mounted during boot. On a fifth machine, mounting fails.

As root, I can mount it from the command line using:

mount /work4

It takes the parameters from /etc/fstab and everything works.

When I shut down, I have to umount from the command line again.

My /etc/fstab file looks like this:

/dev/hda2	/	reiserfs	acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1	/boot	ext2	acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb1	/work1	reiserfs	acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hdb2	/work2	reiserfs	acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hdb3	/work3	reiserfs	acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hda3	swap	swap	pri=42 0 0
devpts	/dev/pts	devpts	mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc	/proc	proc	defaults 0 0
usbfs	/proc/bus/usb	usbfs	noauto 0 0
sysfs	/sys	sysfs	noauto 0 0
192.168.1.9:/work4	/work4	nfs	rw 0 0

What is puzzling is this has worked properly for several years and just 
started malfunctioning last week.

I do know that there's some kind of problem with the motherboard because 
my sound is distorted, but that has been there for a year.

Dan Arico

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