(or maybe selinux?) Re: Problem with NFS after updating util-linux

[Paul Howarth]

Will Partain wrote:
> Espen Stefansen <espenas at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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"
>>
>>But the server isn't down.
>>
>>If i replace the new util-linux rpm, with the old one, it works fine.
> 
> 
> I'm seeing the same symptoms.  I was OK until this morning's updates,
> which did not include util-linux, but did include (speculating wildly)...
> 
>  Nils Philippsen  Fedora Core 3 Update: system-config-services-0.8.21-0.fc3.1
>  Daniel J Walsh   Fedora Core 3 Update: selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.93
> 
> I have other NFS(v3) clients [Solaris 8] which are seeing things from
> the RH9 server no problem.  My FC3 clients are seeing the FC3 server
> (NFSv4) just fine.
> 
> No messages in any logs other than the one Espen reports.  Happy to
> help with chasing this one...

Regressing to util-linux-2.12a-16 "fixes" this problem, even with all 
other updates installed, so I'm pretty certain that the util-linux 
update is the issue.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150775

Note also that using "udp" as a mount option at the client end also 
works around this problem.

Paul.