-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Situation: I have an 11.0 host system, with a 11.1 guest under vmware. The later exports a directory via NFS. Attempts to import this directory in the host fail initially with time out, till they suddenly succed (nothing else done in both machines during that time): ** Host (nfs client): nimrodel:~ # mount /mnt/nfs_usb/ mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: internal error nimrodel:~ # date; mount /mnt/nfs_usb/ Tue Jul 21 12:53:34 CEST 2009 ^C nimrodel:~ # date; mount /mnt/nfs_usb/ ; date Tue Jul 21 12:53:42 CEST 2009 mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: internal error Tue Jul 21 12:54:44 CEST 2009 nimrodel:~ # date; mount /mnt/nfs_usb/ ; date Tue Jul 21 12:55:24 CEST 2009 mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: timed out, giving up mount.nfs: internal error Tue Jul 21 12:56:27 CEST 2009 nimrodel:~ # date; mount /mnt/nfs_usb/ ; date Tue Jul 21 13:02:19 CEST 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:02:20 CEST 2009 nimrodel:~ # nimrodel:~ # rcnfs status Checking for mounted nfs shares (from /etc/fstab):idmapd not running unused ( I have tried with nfs running other times, no difference) /etc/fstab : eleanor.valinor:/mnt/usb /mnt/nfs_usb nfs defaults,noauto 0 0 ** Guest (nfs server): Log: Jul 21 12:51:35 eleanor kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Jul 21 12:51:35 eleanor kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period Jul 21 12:51:35 eleanor rpc.statd[14926]: statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user Jul 21 12:51:38 eleanor sm-notify[14933]: Already notifying clients; Exiting! Jul 21 12:57:17 eleanor run-crons[14020]: suse.de-updatedb: OK Jul 21 12:58:45 eleanor dhcpcd[3202]: eth0: renewing lease of 172.16.168.129 Jul 21 12:58:45 eleanor dhcpcd[3202]: eth0: leased 172.16.168.129 for 1800 seconds Jul 21 12:58:45 eleanor dhcpcd[3202]: eth0: adding IP address 172.16.168.129/24 Jul 21 12:58:45 eleanor dhcpcd[3202]: eth0: adding default route via 172.16.168.2 metric 0 Jul 21 12:58:47 eleanor ifup: eth0 device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) Jul 21 12:58:49 eleanor SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ... Jul 21 12:58:52 eleanor SuSEfirewall2: batch committing... Jul 21 12:58:52 eleanor SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set Jul 21 12:58:55 eleanor syslog-ng[1710]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration; Jul 21 12:58:55 eleanor syslog-ng[1710]: New configuration initialized; Jul 21 13:02:19 eleanor kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- Jul 21 13:02:20 eleanor mountd[14934]: authenticated mount request from nodevmnet8.valinor:869 for /mnt/usb (/mnt/usb) The last line is when mount succeeds in the client. /etc/exports: /mnt/usb *.valinor(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) 172.16.168.1(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) /mnt/usb/1_a *.valinor(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) 172.16.168.1(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) /mnt/usb/2_b *.valinor(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) 172.16.168.1(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) /mnt/usb/3_c *.valinor(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) 172.16.168.1(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) /mnt/usb/4_d *.valinor(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) 172.16.168.1(rw,async,nohide,no_subtree_check) Ideas? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkplpCIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WmGACfRN7MWE1ahGpCBD6hnvXzlTgS Vt0An0aEZ+YNuEds6oNYm1bfOS+p98mD =VKEP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org