https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649871 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649871#c0 Summary: nfs mount failure during autoyast tftpboot Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: beensen@nld.ds.mpg.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7 We want to perform an autoyast auto-install via tftpboot/pxelinux from an AIX (IBM AIX 5.3 TL5 SP3 & HACMP 5.2) server. During boot, the client fails to mount the nfs-directory to get the SuSE packages. This is the error: <snip> Unable to create repository from URL 'nfs://192.168.216.12/path/to/root'. Details: Failed to mount 192.168.216.12:/path/to/root on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: Mounting media failed (mount.nfs: Remote I/O Error) <snap> I tried to switch to the console on ALT-F2 and issued the manual mount-command # mount -tnfs 192.168.216.12:/exports/ /mnt -v mount.nfs: timeout set for <date> mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'vers=4,addr=192.168.216.12,clientaddr=192.168.216.161' mount.nfs: mount(2): Remote I/O error mount.nfs: Remote I/O error Then I tried to mount with NFS version 3 and got # mount -tnfs 192.168.216.12:/exports/ /mnt -overs=3 -v mount.nfs: timeout set for <date> /usr/sbin/start-statd: line 8: /etc/sysconfig/nfs: No such file or directory mount.nfs: rpc.statd ist not running but is required for remote locking. mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified Mounting from an already installed machine in the same network works without problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.