Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-02 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 02/10/12 11:17 did gyre and gimble: >> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 18:45 did gyre and gimble: > Last, you'd better use autofs to mount those filesystems on > demand, rather than hardcoding them in /etc/fstab, which avoid to > relies on ser

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-02 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 02/10/2012 12:18, AL13N a écrit : FWIW: my mga2 server and mga1 chrooted client don't need fsid=0 . but then i'm using nfsver=3; don't want to be using nfsv4 Why ? -- BOFH excuse #104: backup tape overwritten with copy of system manager's favourite CD

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-02 Thread AL13N
> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 21:41 did gyre and gimble: >> With NFSv4, the server remaps its actual filesystem (/home, for >> instance) in a pseudo-filesystem, which is seen by clients as a root >> filesystem (/ here). Consider it as some kind of implicit chroot. >> >> With ear

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-02 Thread AL13N
> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 18:45 did gyre and gimble: Last, you'd better use autofs to mount those filesystems on demand, rather than hardcoding them in /etc/fstab, which avoid to relies on server availability during the boot. >>> >>> Replace nfs with autofs in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/12 02:31, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 21:41 did gyre and > gimble: >> With NFSv4, the server remaps its actual filesystem (/home, for >> instance) in a pseudo-filesystem, which is seen by clients as

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-01 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 21:41 did gyre and gimble: > With NFSv4, the server remaps its actual filesystem (/home, for > instance) in a pseudo-filesystem, which is seen by clients as a root > filesystem (/ here). Consider it as some kind of implicit chroot. > > With earlier i

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 01/10/12 18:45 did gyre and gimble: >>> Last, you'd better use autofs to mount those filesystems on >>> demand, rather than hardcoding them in /etc/fstab, which avoid to >>> relies on server availability during the boot. >> >> Replace nfs with autofs in those

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 01/10/2012 22:34, AL13N a écrit : Hah! suddenly I have /home/anne/ on 192.168.0.40 and it's readable. That's obviously an improvement, but I still need the Data1 directory tree. Root can umount it. It shows every sign of being mounted, yet I can't read any of it. All the data there is owne

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 01/10/2012 21:55, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GOT IT!!! Remembered that you said it would mount as /, to which I don't have access of course. That's not exactly what I said :) With old NFS versions (2/3), the server exports an actual filesystem (/ho

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread AL13N
Op maandag 1 oktober 2012 20:43:26 schreef Anne Wilson: > On 01/10/12 20:16, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Argh!! re-reading those lines, it's giving the IP address > >> instead of the mount point. > > > > Garbage. Ignore. > > > > I've obviously stared at this too long and I'm not making any > > sense

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - SOLVED

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GOT IT!!! Remembered that you said it would mount as /, to which I don't have access of course. I removed 'fsid=0', restarted, and all is well. I can see all my data! Thanks for your patience. Anne -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/12 20:16, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Argh!! re-reading those lines, it's giving the IP address >> instead of the mount point. > > Garbage. Ignore. > > I've obviously stared at this too long and I'm not making any > sense at all now. > For a mom

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
> Argh!! re-reading those lines, it's giving the IP address instead of the > mount point. Garbage. Ignore. I've obviously stared at this too long and I'm not making any sense at all now. Anne

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/12 19:02, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 01/10/2012 17:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> The good news (after rebooting server and client) that the server >> now is running nfs and nfs_acl > Over IPv4, or over IPv6 only as previously ? > >> The less

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 01/10/2012 17:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : The good news (after rebooting server and client) that the server now is running nfs and nfs_acl Over IPv4, or over IPv6 only as previously ? The less good news is that the laptop still can't mount My crystall ball is empty... what is the output of a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 01/10/2012 19:45, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : Also, take cares, with NFSv4, you don't mount the actual server filepath, but the exported filepath: the root filesystem (the one with fsid=0) will be available as /, whatever its actual path. Forget about it, configuration handling has evolved a bi

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 01/10/2012 17:26, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 Oct 2012 13:18:36 Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 22/09/2012 21:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : udp0 0 *:nfs *:* unfsd Ouch... You're running an obsolete alternative

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/12 12:18, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 22/09/2012 21:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> udp0 0 *:nfs *:* unfsd > Ouch... You're running an obsolete alternative nfs server. You > should uninstall the unfs3 package,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 Oct 2012 13:18:36 Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 22/09/2012 21:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> udp0 0 *:nfs *:* >> >> unfsd > > Ouch... You're running an obsolete alternative nfs server. You > should uninsta

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-10-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 22/09/2012 21:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : udp0 0 *:nfs *:* unfsd Ouch... You're running an obsolete alternative nfs server. You should uninstall the unfs3 package, and this package should get removed from the distribution. To summarize, h

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/12 08:26, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 23 September 2012 11:18, Anne Wilson > wrote: Package nfs-utils blahblah is already installed >>> nfs-common service, sorry. >>> >> That may well point to the problem, though I've no idea what >> ne

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 23 September 2012 11:18, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Package nfs-utils blahblah is already installed >> nfs-common service, sorry. >> > That may well point to the problem, though I've no idea what needs > doing to solve it: > > service nfs-commons status > Cannot find nfs-commons service that's "nf

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/09/12 07:04, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 22/09/2012 20:53, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> and if >>> rpc.idmapd is running on both side (service nfs-utils status >>> on both side). >>> >> This is driving me mad. 'service nfs-utils status' on the >>

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-22 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 22/09/2012 20:53, Anne Wilson a écrit : and if rpc.idmapd is running on both side (service nfs-utils status on both side). This is driving me mad. 'service nfs-utils status' on the server tells me "cannot find nfs-utils service". Package nfs-utils blahblah is already installed nfs-common

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just wondered whether these msec lines tell you anything useful - tcp0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN dovecot tcp0 0 *:4001 *:* LISTEN rpc.statd tcp0 0 *:nfs

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/09/12 11:01, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 21/09/2012 20:54, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >>> >>> If everything else fails, you may also inhibit IPv6 comp

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-22 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 22/09/2012 00:48, Barry Jackson a écrit : Not sure if this is related, but did you apply Derek's patch? :- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207#c79 Which has nothing to do with the underlying issue here, just with pushing discussable features to the configuration wizard, such as using

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-22 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 21/09/2012 20:54, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: If everything else fails, you may also inhibit IPv6 completly: just add 'install ipv6 /bin/true' in any file under /etc/modprobe.d, and reboot. Using MCC, I dis

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-21 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/09/12 19:54, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: If everything else fails, you may also inhibit IPv6 completly: just add 'install ipv6 /bin/true' in any file under /etc/modprobe.d, and reboot. Using MCC, I disabled

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > If everything else fails, you may also inhibit IPv6 completly: just > add 'install ipv6 /bin/true' in any file under /etc/modprobe.d, and > reboot. > Using MCC, I disabled IPv6 and rebooted. Now 'mount

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 20/09/2012 20:17, Anne Wilson a écrit : Looks as though the problem relates to rpc on the server. I don't mind doing the digging, but can you point me to the right place to start the hol

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread AL13N
Op donderdag 20 september 2012 22:37:27 schreef Guillaume Rousse: > Le 20/09/2012 20:17, Anne Wilson a écrit : > >>> Looks as though the problem relates to rpc on the server. I > >>> don't mind doing the digging, but can you point me to the right > >>> place to start the hole? > >> > >> I'd try t

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 20/09/2012 20:17, Anne Wilson a écrit : Looks as though the problem relates to rpc on the server. I don't mind doing the digging, but can you point me to the right place to start the hole? I'd try to understand why the nfs daemon (rpc.nfsd) is listening on IPv6 only, whereas the mount daemon

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 16:27, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 20/09/2012 15:00, Anne Wilson a écrit : >>> Also, you can check available NFS version on your servers: >>> rpcinfo -s 192.168.0.40 >> rpcinfo -s 192.168.0.40 program version(s) netid(s) >> service own

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 20/09/2012 15:00, Anne Wilson a écrit : Also, you can check available NFS version on your servers: rpcinfo -s 192.168.0.40 rpcinfo -s 192.168.0.40 program version(s) netid(s) service owner 10 2,3,4 local,udp,tcp,udp6,tcp6 portmapper super

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 11:59, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 20/09/2012 11:54, Anne Wilson a écrit : >>> and -v option to mount.nfs on client side to get more verbose >>> error reporting. >>> >> >> How do I do that? mount.nfs is an executable, not a shell >> scr

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 20/09/2012 11:54, Anne Wilson a écrit : and -v option to mount.nfs on client side to get more verbose error reporting. How do I do that? mount.nfs is an executable, not a shell script, so I can't add it there. Attempting to add it in the mount command says it is an invalid option. This is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-20 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/09/12 21:47, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 19/09/2012 19:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> My laptop uses fstab lines to mount directories on the old server >> and also on a QNAS box. I've no idea w

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-19 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 19/09/2012 19:46, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My laptop uses fstab lines to mount directories on the old server and also on a QNAS box. I've no idea what version of Linux is running on the QNAS, but the mounts are working there. The old server is runn

[Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem?

2012-09-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My laptop uses fstab lines to mount directories on the old server and also on a QNAS box. I've no idea what version of Linux is running on the QNAS, but the mounts are working there. The old server is running Mageia 2, and mount to that don't work.