On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>
>>    After what seemed like good ideas for diagnosing the failure of two 
>> SL5.1 systems to export filesystems, I was still unable to correct the 
>> problem, even by restarting nfs and related services.  Suggestions stopped 
>> coming in, and local users got impatient for the problem to be corrected, 
>> even if it meant interrupting their work. So I rebooted the machines, and 
>> that seemed to fix the problem.  But the refusal to export may well recur 
>> -- it has happened before.  Ideas are still welcome on how to diagnose or 
>> correct the problem in the future without rebooting.
>
> I had similar problems which seemed to be related to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441983
>
> However I set some lockd ports in /etc/sysconfig/nfs
> so your problem may be different.
>
      If the problem is related to that bug report, RedHat's solution given 
in http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0107.html would be to upgrade 
from the now installed nfs-utils-1.0.9-35z.el5_2.x86_64 to 
nfs-utils-1.0.9-40.el5.x86_64 from SL5.3 or 5.x.

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> Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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Steven Yellin