Subject: Re: rpcbind trouble - Linux cannot mount nfs
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 06/07/2000 03:47:29
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:38:34AM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> After upgrading from portmap to rpcbind, my Linux (RedHat 6) machine
> cannot mount the NetBSD server's filesystems any more.
> 
> The showmount or mount commands hang in a connect system call, which
> is recognized and logged, but seemingly never completed by rpcbind.

That's likely because the Linux client wants to use TCP by default,
and there was a bug in the backward-compatibility code for server-side
TCP. I just fixed it, if you update src/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_soc.c (to
version 1.5) things should work again.

- Frank