Bug#568288: mount.nfs: mount(2): Invalid argument

[ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:32:32PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > As noted above, I only had version 4 configured in one of them:
> > might that have upset the negotiation/default somehow?
> 
> It might if the export was not configured to be for NFSv4 (with an
> fsid=0 entry etc). Another possibility is a bug in an older version of
> the Debian package or using an older kernel at the other end AFAICS.
> 
> Can you still reproduce this issue or are you fine with me closing this bug?

I will have to find time to experiment. I still think the error message 
could be improved, although I guess if mount is talking to a kernel
which is not configured for the right version, it is a tall order for
it to diagnose that that is the problem.

ael