FC16 nfs-utils problem

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 01:11 -0700, Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>  
>         It's nfs-server.service .
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot. That got me on the right track.
> I still had a bit of a struggle, for two reasons:
> 
> 
> The exports appear to work only if the client hostnames are listed
> in /etc/hosts. Is this a new requirement? Is there an option to make
> it work with hostnames served via DNS? (I have many machines with
> Fedora 3-15 almost all versions, with these the exports work from
> DNS).

Dunno. NFSv4 is very, ahem, counter-intuitive. It pays to just read the
docs, I find.

> I reboot the FC16 machine and find that nfs-server.service is "dead".
> rebooting immediately without changing anything the service comes up
> alive. Seems to be random. Maybe 50-50 chance that the service is up.
> Could this be a bug?

Sounds like one. Boot until it fails then poke around at 'systemctl
status nfs-server.service' and the boot logs, see if you can figure out
what goes wrong.
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