fedora 11 alpha nfs not listening on udp port 2049?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 4 06:48:20 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 19:02 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> for the first time, i'm trying to boot an embedded system via NFS
> mounting its root fs from my f11 alpha system, and the attempt to
> mount that root fs simply hangs.  invoking tcpdump shows continuous
> diagnostics claiming that, on the server side, "udp port nfs
> unreachable."
> 
>   sure enough, even though "service nfs start" worked fine, running
> "netstat -an" shows nothing listening on port 2049 on the server.
> however, "ps -ef" shows multiple [nfsd] processes (threads?) running.
> 
>   that would explain it if nothing is listening on port 2049.  on
> another system here that acts very nicely as an NFS server (running
> RHEL4), if i run "netstat -an", i can see both a UDP and TCP listener
> on that port, plus numerous established connections from clients
> mounting.
> 
>   but on f11 alpha ... nothing.  where went port 2049?
> 

I think, though I may be forgetting, that nfsv4 is now the default. Have
you explicitly enabled nfsv3?

-sv





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