NFS issues - solved

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:53:54 -0400
Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> We had a power failure last night. All our systems rebooted ok, but I'm
> having some trouble with NFS.
> All systems are running RHEL 4.
> 3 systems are x86-64, and 2 are IA64.=20
> I am exporting directories from 2 service, 01 and 03.=20
> Server 4 is able to mount all the files.
> server  1(IA64) can mount files served by 03.=20
> server 2 and 3 are unable to mount files exported from 1.
>=20
> This is what happens on server 5 when I try to mount from 1.
> mount: boslc01:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
> The export for this is:
> /home                    boslc05(rw,sync)
>=20
> [root at boslc03 ~]# mount /aboston
> mount: boslc01:/aboston failed, reason given by server: Permission
> denied
>=20
> The export for this is:
> /aboston              *(rw,sync,insecure_locks)
>=20
> I have restarted the nfs and mount daemons on all of those systems.
> Firewall is turned off.=20
>=20
> I've also restarted other related services such as portmapper and nscd,
> and I have verified that NIS is running fine on all the systems.=20

After about 4 reboots, I was able to restore all NFS exports. I'm not
sure what I did to fix it. I made a few changes to the /etc/exports
file both manually and via system-config-nfs. The reason for the
multiple reboots is that on occasion when starting up the console is
unusable. I don't know if this is an issue with the KVM or the system
itself as it also happens on the other system that uses an identical
display and similar KVM.=20

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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