Re: Failure trying to setup build robot for gnulib on Fedora/22.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/9/2017 12:08 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/09/2017 05:56 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > Fedora 25 Upgrade.  VMS will not mount the NFS export on any version. 
>
> Does the VMS client mount over UDP only? If so, that is probably the 
> problem. Recent nfs-utils (as used in Fedora 25) disabled UDP support by 
> default, as the major NFS clients have supported TCP for many years; see:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9591703/
>
> Try editing /etc/sysconfig/nfs and adding -u to RPCNFSDARGS; that way 
> you should not have to mess with downgrading nfs-utils. See rpc.nfsd(8).

I tried "-V 2 -u" and the nfs server would not start.

I then tried "--udp -V 2" and the nfs server restarted and everything is 
working with the newer nfs-utils.

> Alternatively, perhaps you can get your VMS client to use TCP. That 
> would probably be better, if it works.

The TCP/IP with VMS 8.4 and later allow using TCP to mount NFS exports.

The TCP/IP with VMS 7.3/VAX requires NFS V2 and UDP.

Thanks,
-John