problem mounting an nfs partition after installing 12.04.1 LTS **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 08/31/2012 01:47 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:20:14 -0500
> From: Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> To: Ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: problem mounting an nfs partition after installing 12.04.1
> 	LTS
> Message-ID: <503FF52E.5050908 at austin.rr.com>
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>
> Folks,
>
> I just completed upgrading my wife's system to 12.04.1 LTS, no problems were
> reported or observed.
>
> Just prior to the upgrade I backed up her home directory to an archive
> partition. Which is mounted manually as needed via nfs. No problems were
> encountered.
>
> After the upgrade I tried to mount the nfs partition (as a test) using:
>
> sudo mount /big_archive
>
> and received the following messages:
>
> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
> mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.

OK! So I read the message again and DID what it said, added -o nolock to the 
above mount command. It worked... I have added the option to my /etc/fstab entry 
(see below) and tested it again. Still works...

> mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

This should have gotten my attention the first time!!!

>
> I tried:
>
> sudo start statd
> start: Job is already running: statd
>
>
> I can ping the remote system successfully.  The entry in /etc/fstab for
> big_archive is:
>
> koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive	nfs	rw,noauto	0 0

   Revised entry in /etc/fstab:

   koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive	nfs	rw,noauto,nolock	0 0
>
> The mount point exists.
>
> ls -la /big_archive
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29  2010 .
> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Aug 30 13:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Jan 29  2010 **NOT_MOUNTED**
>
> What have I missed?

I gotta learn to read...

Jay

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Jay Ridgley
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