fedora 11 alpha nfs not listening on udp port 2049?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  for the first time, i'm trying to boot an embedded system via NFS
mounting its root fs from my f11 alpha system, and the attempt to
mount that root fs simply hangs.  invoking tcpdump shows continuous
diagnostics claiming that, on the server side, "udp port nfs
unreachable."

  sure enough, even though "service nfs start" worked fine, running
"netstat -an" shows nothing listening on port 2049 on the server.
however, "ps -ef" shows multiple [nfsd] processes (threads?) running.

  that would explain it if nothing is listening on port 2049.  on
another system here that acts very nicely as an NFS server (running
RHEL4), if i run "netstat -an", i can see both a UDP and TCP listener
on that port, plus numerous established connections from clients
mounting.

  but on f11 alpha ... nothing.  where went port 2049?

rday
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p.s.  yes, it's been a very alpha kind of day.

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Robert P. J. Day
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