NFS failure

[Derek Tattersall]

* Jeff Elkins (jeffelkins at earthlink.net) [040409 06:50]:
> From: Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins at earthlink.net>
> Organization: Elkins.org
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 21:27:55 -0400
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> Subject: Re: NFS failure
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> On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:39 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> >On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:05 pm, Fulko.Hew at sita.aero wrote:
> >>Damian Menscher <menscher at uiuc.edu>@redhat.com on 04/07/2004 04:57:13 PM
> >>
> >>wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> >>> > I'm getting failure messages on my nfs mounts i.e. :
> >>> >
> >>> > mount to NFS server 'music.elkins' failed: server is down.
> >>> >
> >>> > nsfd appears to be running and I didn't see anything suspicious in the
> >>
> >>logs.
> >>
> >>> > The servers are up and running and have other clients connected.
> >>>
> >>> You didn't mention what steps you took to debug it:
> >>>
> >>> Can you ping the server?
> >>> What is the output of rpcinfo -p servername?
> >>> Does the server have access restrictions (firewall, TCP Wrappers, etc)?
> >>
> >>I have the same symptoms...
> >>rpcinfo says that nfs et.al. are running.
> >>
> >>Something has changed in test 2, since the same PC running RH9
> >>accesses that host just fine.
> >
> >Ditto here. These boxes exporting nfs dirs are not firewalled and have no
> >access restrictions for other clients in the network. They work fine for all
> >clients except for the one running FC2. I can reboot the FC2 box into Debian
> >and it mounts the directories as expected. I seriously doubt that the nfs
> >servers are at fault.
> >
> >Jeff Elkins
> 
> I must say that I'm surprised that an FC2 NFS failure isn't getting much play 
> on this list. For me, reliable NFS is a absolute requirement. I can 
> understand that a "typical" single-box user could care less, but surely some 
> folks out there must depend on reliable networking.
> 
> Are any folks on this list using FC2 and NFS successfully? 
> 
> Jeff Elkins
> 
> 
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I'm mounting via NFS a directory on a RH9 server read only with no
problems, and a directory on a FreeBSD-Current server read write with no
problems.
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