FC9 - recent upgrade breaks NFS

[parminides]

> 
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I get messages indicating "NFS statd failed" and messsages says it can't
> register. Is this caused by the dbus "fix" or ???
> /quote]
> 
> Last night, after updating for the first time in awhile (because of the dbus issues), I had this exact same problemm as Bill. I upgraded from kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 to 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.x86_64.
> 
> I get the message "Starting NFS statd: [Failed] from the Fedora splash screen during boot up. It automatically switches to the "Show Details" option just in time to display the NFS error message.
> 
> I rebooted to the old kernel, and, as expected, no error message appeared. Then, I rebooted to the old kernel again, but this time I manually selected "Show Details." I was surprised to see the NFS error message!
> 
> In other words, the old kernel was also failing to get NFS started, but the error message was surpressed, and ignorance was bliss!
> 
> It seems to me that there are 3 possible explanations:
> 
> 1. The NFS problem had been there for who knows how long, but the update I made last night forced the error messages to be displayed during boot up.
> 2. The updated kernel somehow broke NFS in the old kernel. I'm not a developer, but this seems unlikely although possible.
> 3. Some other non-kernel part of the updates generally broke NFS across the board.
> 
> Any ideas?


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