Re: nfs use-once-only? - SOLVED

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:21, Erik Rask wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the
> > first time yesterday.  But today I get
> >    mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
> > every time.  So I tried in the other direction.  Set up /etc/export and
> > /etc/hosts.allow and - easy - it connects.  But only once.  Unmount the
> > share, and all subsequent attemps to mount are met with
> >    mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
> >
> > So I seem to have configured a one-time connection.  Not quite what I
> > intended.  Any ideas?
>
> I had the same problem with the testing version. This is (was?) a bug in
>
> nfs-kernel-server/testing. Either go back to stable with:
> > apt-get install --reinstall nfs-kernel-server/stable
>
> and then put it on hold with dselect and keep an eye out for when it is
> fixed. Another option is to upgrade it to unstable (s/stable/unstable in
> the command line above), I believe the bug is fixed there.

Unstable did not work either (and gave me arun-around with dependencies 
first!).  But stable is fine.  All back in order now.  Thanks.

-- 
richard