Port Mapper Failure on Reboot - Automatic Mounts 1

[miscmsh]

Our system is running AIX 4.3.1 .
We have a developed a serious delay in our Reboot process. The system "goes dormant" for up to 10 minutes. Can you suggest why?

After the system displays:
"Performing All Automatic Mounts"
there is a pause of 8 to 10 minutes!
Then the display informs us:

mount: 1831-010 Server Lori not responding
RPC 1832-018 Port Mapper Failure.
RPC 1832-008 Timed Out.
mount: backgrounding
Lori - /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local

after which the reboot proceeds sucessfully to conclusion.

This will occur whether "Lori" (a PC with attached printer
on a remote LAN) is on or off.
Why is the mount going into background?
What file feeds this boot-up process?
What must we do to make Lori behave like all the other PCs on all the other remote LANs?

Thank you for any advice!

Marti

 

[Morsing]

NFS mounts usually goes to the nackground unless otherwise specified (which would be stupid).

'lsnfsmnt' should show you the nfs filesystems (I think). Remove the Lori one with 'rmnfsmnt'.

Lori does behave like the other PCs. Your AIX box has been told to mount a filesystem on Lori but Lori hasn't got a NFS server.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[miscmsh]

Thanks Henrik!
"lsnfsmnt" pointed us in the right direction.
Sure enough, Lori certainly wasn't where she should have been!
I imagine we took a wrong turn in smit, and defined Lori
under NFS instead of under TCP/IP.
That entry was then to be found in /etc/filesystems.
So we removed Lori, the NFS, thru smit.
And now, I can hardly wait to reboot!
Thanks again!