Problem with NFS after updating util-linux

[Paul Howarth]

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

Paul.