[Puppet Users] NFS clients - puppet hang when mount point

madAndroid
2011-11-09T15:00:05Z

We''ve only recently discovered that puppet can manage mount points
using the mount directive;
however, a short while back we built an nfs client and server classes
without using this resource, and we''ve encountered a problem where
puppet seems to hang when the nfs server is unavailable.

Using --debug doesn''t seem to specify exactly at which point the run
is failing, which could steer us in the right direction around putting
something in place in the classes in question.

Is there anything we can do, short of switching over to using the
mount directive/resource, in order to mitigate the problem when the
nfs server is unavailable? It''s preventing us from managing other
resources on the clients when this happens..

thanks in advance,
Andrew