FC16 nfs-utils problem

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:46:13AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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?

No, that sounds like a bug.

--b.

> 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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