[plug] slow to mount nfs, Gentoo <- Debian

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, quoth Denis Brown:

> The command (mount) just hangs in the terminal window.   ctrl-C's, ctrl-D's
> etc do not get my command prompt back.
[...]
> After about five minutes the mountpoint suddenly has the shared directory

Sounds like you are not running portmap

try running /sbin/portmap (or wherever it is) on your Gentoo machine
before running the mount command.  Install portmap if you haven't got it

Regards,

 - Matt