Re: Problem with NFS after updating util-linux

[Karl Bellve <Karl Bellve umassmed edu>]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Espen Stefansen wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > At my company, we have a redhat 9 server which is a nfs and nis
> > server. It handles our logins and home-dirs. After updating my Fedora
> > 3 machine with util-linux, i cannot log on anymore. In my log it says:
> >
> > Mar 31 13:58:54 localhost automount[5900]: >> mount to NFS server
> > 'artemis' failed: server is down.
> > Mar 31 13:58:54 localhost automount[5900]: >> mount: backgrounding
> > "artemis:/export/home/espens"

This happened on a Fedora 4 machine that we just set up.

Put UDP in your fstab mounting options. I believe the latest NFS is 
trying to use TCP instead of UDP. The older Linux NFS servers don't 
support TCP.

For example:
computer:/raid             /storage/           nfs     udp,defaults 0 0



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Cheers,



Karl Bellve