NFS hanging

[Sergey Babkin]

>From: Steve Suhre <tech at nano.net>
>
>I know I've dealt with this before...but can't remember what the deal 
>was... I mount a remote server to /mnt and the mount command seems to 
>work, no errors or logged errors on either machine. But when I try to cd 
>to the /mnt folder on the client the server hangs. I can't do an ls 
>without it hanging either. I can't even kill the ls process, the client 
>needs to be rebooted to clear any hung commands. The client is running 
>an older version of bsd (BSDI), the nfs server FreeBSD 5.4. Any help 
>would be appreciated.....

Looks like the mountd daemon on the server is 
working fine but nfsd is not. Check if it's 
running, if the versions are matching, and such.

-SB