NFS problems

[Pete Simko]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 02:15, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:31 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> >     Um, what changed recently?  I just did a full rpm update on three 
> > machines running FC3 (the last update was done last week.)  Suddenly I 
> > can't mount a particular storage server:
> > 
> >     mount to NFS server 'storage' failed: server is down.
> > 
> >     The server isn't down.  I can use any machine on the network (that's 
> > not running FC3) and mount the storage server just fine.  The three 
> > problem servers can also mount anything else on the network, EXCEPT the 
> > storage one.  They can ping it just fine, so why can't they mount it?  
> > The last time they were able to mount the storage server was last night 
> > when I performed the rpm updates.  After the reboot, they can no longer 
> > do that.
> > 
> >     I've rebooted the machines, I've rebooted the storage server, I've 
> > checked other possible problem spots (no iptables, no SELinux,) I tried 
> > adding 'nfsvers=2' to my command line, nothing ... so, what changed?  
> > What could be the problem?
> 
> A bug in the util-linux-2.12a-21 update package. This happened last
> week. See:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg06712.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150775
> 
> Quick workaround: use the "udp" mount option.
> 
> This is supposed to have been fixed by the util-linux-2.12a-23 package,
> released earlier this week:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/util-linux-2.12a-23.i386.rpm

I've been having the same problem since installing FC3 on my file
server. Unfortunately, neither upgrading util-linux or using mount -o
udp has solved anything. The client just keeps telling me the server is
down even though I can ping the server, rpm -q confirms I have the right
version of util-linux, and SElinux is disabled. Any one have any other
ideas?