After reporting this bug, I switched to using UDP rather than TCP, and I have not seen the problem for 3 weeks now!
The exact change is that I added ",proto=udp" to /etc/fstab on the client like this: bbb:/helle-nfs /home/helle nfs4 bg,proto=udp 0 0 -- "nfs: server not responding, timed out", then nfs4 locks up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs