Espen Stefansen <espenas@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
