There is some issue with firewalls and NFS in the latest update. That would not explain "Permission denied", but might explain the mount call hanging. So if you try again, please disable any firewall and see if that makes a difference. Error message concerning the failure would either come from mountd or from the kernel. It doesn't seem possible to enable mountd debugging with /etc/nfs.conf. You would need to edit /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-mountd.service and add a --debug all to the ExecStart line. Then systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart nfs-mountd For kernel messages, rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all Then try the mount. kernel messages will appear in the output of 'dmesg' mountd messages should appear in journalctl -u nfs-mountd.service --since -1day You can turn off debugging by reverting the change to nfs-mountd.server and restarting the service. For the kernel rpcdebug -m nfsd -c all If you see "fsid=0" as an export option on one directory, it becomes the directory you get when you mount "/" over NFSv4. This is an internal implementation detail that is now best forgotten, but some installers still set it and some installations might have it left over from the past. It could give confusing results - possibly even "Permission denied" errors.