Re: Problem with NFS after updating util-linux

From: Espen Stefansen (espenas_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:33:12 +0200
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    On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:20:59 +0100, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
    > Karl Bellve wrote:
    > > 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
    >
    > If you're using any non-default mount option, you can skip the
    > "defaults" as it's just a placeholder in the fstab file:
    >
    > computer:/raid /storage/ nfs udp 0 0
    >
    But is this something that has to be changed at the server or the
    clients. Cos there will be at least 20 more machines here that will
    have this problem next morning. 

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