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Re: redhat 5.2 and nfs




On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Hashibon Adham <phadham@aluf.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> >  Hi, we have upgraded one of our systems to  5.2 from 5.0, and the nfs with
> >  a machine running 5.0 stoped working (get RPC timed out), even when we
> >  upgraded this machine we still cant make nfs work
> 
> I've seen all kinds of weirdness with latest versions of rpc.nfsd/mountd, in
> particular, when cross-mounting. If the exporting box mounts some NFS volumes
> itself, try to disable them in /etc/fstab & reboot - see if it helps. BTW, I'm
> still running 2.2beta16 since 1996.

sadly, so am I. RH 5.2 on the central server (54 gigs served to a farm of
18 other machines in 7 other unix flavors) but needed to downgrade the
nfs-server RPM to the one that came with RH 4.2 (beta16). we're working on
a solution with Olaf Kirsch though, sending him logs and LAN dumps... hope
it'll get better.

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