[svlug] Fwd: NFS fails to mount after power-cycle hard boot

[Karsten M. Self]

A teacher reports the following problem with a network of some 40
systems NFS mounted off a central server.  Anyone have a suggested
explanation and/or fix?

> I have some new funny.  On some machines, after reboot (some students
> just can't keep their fingers off the power button), NFS fails to
> mount /home from the server.  NIS seems to be working because students
> can still log in, but mount -a currently times out on these machines.
> ping is OK and the routing table seems OK.

Thanks.

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