<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Steve Heistand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@heistand.org">steve@heistand.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:29:25 -0500, Douglas Wagner wrote<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Ok, so I've got 3 days to figure this one out before my WAF goes to the<br>
> tubes.<br>
><br>
> Been using Myth for a few years now. A year or two ago I came across<br>
> mythbuntu and was pretty impressed so I installed 8.04. Last week, due to<br>
> wanting some better tools, and a successful upgrade of my ubuntu desktop at<br>
> work, I decided to upgrade to mythbuntu 9.04 Jaunty.<br>
><br>
> Did a double network upgrade (8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04). The upgrade got hung<br>
> up in the 8.10 ->9.04 side with some symbolic links to NFS shares and didn't<br>
> install correctly. Removing and adding a few packages (basically a readd of<br>
> the mythbuntu consolidated package) fixed the issue and has the machine up<br>
> and running.<br>
><br>
> Now, however, i'm facing a rather large issue. I have all of my video<br>
> shares (other than a small 250GB drive in the Myth Box that gets the initial<br>
> recording) on NFS Shares shared from my NAS Box. At this point,it seems<br>
> that periodically (at MOST every 24 hours but I'm guessing it's only taking<br>
> a few hours) my Myth box looses NFS connectivity, to the point where it<br>
> cannot see any of my NFS shares anymore. At this point the mythfrontend<br>
> goes into a "hung up" state when attempting to access the recording or video<br>
> section (the stuff on the nas is symbolic linked through NFS to LOOK like<br>
> files on the local system. Yes, I know this is so Myth 0.19 and there's<br>
> other ways to do this now).<br>
><br>
> The root cause seems to be myth being unable to read from NFS. I can<br>
> unmount but not remount the NFS shares. Restarting NFS-COMMON doesn't seem<br>
> to help.<br>
><br>
> I CANNOT have this box having to be rebooted every few hours to make it<br>
> useful. Anyone have any ideas what the heck is going on? Rebooting the<br>
> myth box brings the NFS shares back with no problems at all. Last night I<br>
> restarted the NAS box and did a remount of everything and all was in good<br>
> shape...so it seems I can "fix" it from either end.<br>
><br>
> I can tell it's not the NAS system, because I have some of the same shares<br>
> mounted on other boxes and no other box other than the Myth box has issues<br>
> with the shares (i.e. When the myth box can't access them the rest of the<br>
> boxes can.)<br>
><br>
> All of the exports on the NAS use the same export type (pretty basic):<br>
><br>
> /mnt/video3 <a href="http://192.168.100.0/24%28rw,async%29" target="_blank">192.168.100.0/24(rw,async)</a><br>
><br>
> And are being mounted as follows:<br>
><br>
> nas:/mnt/video3 /mnt/video3 nfs<br>
> intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,async,nfsvers=3,bg,actimeo=0,tcp<br>
><br>
> HELP? Any ideas? Would dropping a mythbuntu 9.04 DVD in the drive and<br>
> doing an "upgrade" (is this possible without blowing away settings?) to<br>
> replace all the system packages with what they should be help? Can I do a<br>
> non-destructive "something's broken, fix it" installation? Any particular<br>
> packages I can remove-reinstall to see about fixing this?<br>
><br>
> Is there a better way to mount these shares or is there a known bug with<br>
> NFS?<br>
><br>
> --Doug<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>I had this (still do I suppose) but I just have a cronjob that does<br>
a 'df' on each of the NFS filesystems every 12 minutes to keep the<br>
mounts active.<br>
<br>
<br>
"Why is it so hot inside this handbasket?"<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Steve Heistand<br>
<a href="mailto:steve@heistand.org">steve@heistand.org</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>That was the other question I wondered because I've managed to spend a significant period watching a movie or transcoding with no problems but the moment I leave the $#&U* thing idle, the NFS mounts die on me.<br>
<br>I've got things mounted via CIFS at the moment, I want to see if that is stable before I start backdating kernel or otherwise mucking with stuff.<br><br>Thanks for the advice.<br><br>--Doug<br>