On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 02:55, Erik Rask wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2003, Neal Lippman wrote:
>
> > OK, one final bit of info. I tried showmount -a on the server and it too
> > failed witha connection refused error.
> >
> > ps aux didn't show mountd running! So, /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server
> > restart, and now mountd is running.
> >
> > Immediately thereafter I could mount the shared partition.
> >
> > Based on this, it seems that the problem is that mountd is exiting
> > unexpectedly...and I have no idea why this would occur, I cannot find
> > any error messages in the logs to explain this.
> >
> > Any thoughts>
> >
>
> I have the same experience as Marc Wilson described earlier, although the
> nfs-kernel-server/testing package doesn't work regardless of client
> version. There are bug reports to this effect. My solution was to
> downgrade to stable and hold it as long as testing is messed.
> To see if your problem is the same as mine, try restarting NFS on the
> server, mount one share and then one more. If the first succeeds and any
> subsequent mounts fail, that's what I had.
> Back to work.
>
This is the same sort of behavoir that I saw....it's starting to sound
like mountd is broken in testing, although I don't recall any recent
upgrades to it and I've been running this setup for some time now
without this kind of problem.
nl
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