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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:13:24 +0000
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Timed out / receiving NFS error when trying to mount NFS file system after make world
Message-ID:  <4A254194.7080807@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0906021030500.6192@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References:  <4A2504AA.1020406@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0906021030500.6192@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>

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Rick Macklem wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> since today I get this error when trying to mount a NFS filesystem 
>> from NFS server:
>>
>> [udp] foo:/home: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Timed out
>>
>> Both boxes, cleint and server, are most recent FreeBSD 
>> 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 from today's buildworld/make kernel.
>>
>> nfsd is up and running and worked that way days before.
>>
>> I saw commitments of new NFSv4 code, are these causing this issue? Is 
>> 8.0 supposed to be offering nfsv4-server capabilities which I need to 
>> switch on anyway?
>>
> By default, everything should work just like before, using the vanilla NFS
> server, etc. The message indicates that mountd wasn't responding. So, 
> first off, check that it is running.
> 
> I did integrate some changes into mountd for the new experimental nfs
> subsystem, but those should only be invoked if "-e" was provided on its
> command line.
> 
> I'll go through the changes I made to mountd.c again, but it has been
> working ok for me.
> 
>> I also tried mount -t newnfs on that NFS filesystem but without any 
>> success. Is this a fault of mine or are temporarely 
>> not-working-condition?
>>
> Using "mount -t newnfs" uses the experimental nfs client instead of the
> regular one, but they should both work. The problem seems to be an
> unresponsive mountd.
> 
> Let us know if you find out anything more about it, rick
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Mounting via '-o nfsv3,tcp' in addition, everthing works all right 
again. I do not know why udp is invoked automatically by now.

But for short, we always did NFS mounts over tcp AND udp, so for tcp it 
worked again!

Oliver


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