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

Guy Matz
2011-11-09T19:12:52Z

OK.  This may seem like a bad idea, but it''s a workaround that has
worked
for me:
I add the nfs server to the 127.0.0.1 entry of the hosts file which causes
NFS to time out pretty immediately.  :-\

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, madAndroid <andrewstangl@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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