[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#540291: initscripts: Same symptoms on standard kernel, with bnx2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver

[Tim Small]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Followup-For: Bug #540291

Hi,

I've seen the same race condition (and implemented the same workaround
as it happens) on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with Broadcom NetXtreme II
BCM5706/5708 gigabit NICs.

The NFS mount fails with "no route to host".  A second mount from the
same server succeeds, as does "mount -a -t nfs" after booting has
completed.

In my case, the look-up of the IP address for the NFS server is being
fulfilled from an entry in /etc/hosts - I suspect that if the lookup
were via DNS instead, then the mount operation would succeed (DNS would
retry, and by the time it works, the NFS mount would be successful).

Tim.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.30        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.41.3-1    ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-20      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

initscripts suggests no packages.

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