Bootup Freezes on "Starting mountd"

[phroggie]

Short story: v14, working mirrored ZFS pool. On booting it gets as far as "Starting mountd." and freezes. Just prior it starts netatalk and displays a line "NFSv4 is disabled". (Pinging the host works, SSH doesn't.) Usually, at this point, if I power cycle it dozens of times (or some times a few) I might get lucky and it boots up. There's nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate what happened. (FWIW, only Macs and RaspberryPis are clients and they're using SMB so I think I can disable netatalk.)

Some background: this headless host has been working for about 19 years going through various upgrades. It sits in an inaccessible corner of the house and aside from upgrades and running pkg upgrade every so often I don't think about it because it usually just runs. This problem began when I did some update to v13 and I was hoping v14 would make the problem go away. Since it usually just works, my FreeBSD skills tend to atrophy so please be patient with me.

Based on Google, I seem to be the only person to have ever had this problem.

Absent a better solution, can I disable mountd?

 

[phroggie]

Maybe, it seems, that there's a remote possibility that potentially the problem appears that it may be fixed.

At some point in the last year or two I changed the address of my subnet from the default 192.168.0.

At the time, I didn't update a line in /etc/exports that had the old subnet in its -network option. /etc/exports was also missing the V4: line.

For me, it's back to taking it for granted that the FreeBSD magically works (and forgetting where the /etc folders are).