On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 02:15, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:31 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > Um, what changed recently? I just did a full rpm update on three > > machines running FC3 (the last update was done last week.) Suddenly I > > can't mount a particular storage server: > > > > mount to NFS server 'storage' failed: server is down. > > > > The server isn't down. I can use any machine on the network (that's > > not running FC3) and mount the storage server just fine. The three > > problem servers can also mount anything else on the network, EXCEPT the > > storage one. They can ping it just fine, so why can't they mount it? > > The last time they were able to mount the storage server was last night > > when I performed the rpm updates. After the reboot, they can no longer > > do that. > > > > I've rebooted the machines, I've rebooted the storage server, I've > > checked other possible problem spots (no iptables, no SELinux,) I tried > > adding 'nfsvers=2' to my command line, nothing ... so, what changed? > > What could be the problem? > > A bug in the util-linux-2.12a-21 update package. This happened last > week. See: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-March/msg06712.html > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150775 > > Quick workaround: use the "udp" mount option. > > This is supposed to have been fixed by the util-linux-2.12a-23 package, > released earlier this week: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/util-linux-2.12a-23.i386.rpm I've been having the same problem since installing FC3 on my file server. Unfortunately, neither upgrading util-linux or using mount -o udp has solved anything. The client just keeps telling me the server is down even though I can ping the server, rpm -q confirms I have the right version of util-linux, and SElinux is disabled. Any one have any other ideas?
