[lug] NFS mount woes

[Ryan Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Jeff Schroeder wrote:

> I have a custom-compiled (think LFS) Linux system I'm using.  I have 
> another Red Hat system serving files via NFS and Samba.  When I try to 
> mount via NFS the custom system, it takes a looooong time (10+ minutes) 
> for the mount to succeed.

	I had similar behavior between a Debian NFS server and a newly
installed Debian workstation (all Debian 3.0). Other Debian workstations
that I had setup with previous version of Debian and then upgraded worked
fine though. 
	Turns out I had forgotten to install the 'nfs-common' package on
the new workstation. This package has rpc.statd and rpc.lockd daemons in
it. Once I installed that, everything worked just fine. I think the NFS
mount was blocking on trying to contact the local lock daemon.
	TTYL.

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