Firefox and nfs-home

R

riesebie

Hi,

My setup:

NFSv3 server running Linux. /etc/exports:
Code: 
/export/users  192.168.200.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,insecure)
FreeBSD 9.1 client. /etc/fstab:
Code: 
server:/export/users /home/users nfs,rw,tcp,nfsv3,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0

/etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
#rpcbind_enable="YES"
#rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
#rpc_statd_enable="YES"
nfs_client_enable="YES"
nfs_client_flags="-n 4"
Firefox starts but no bookmarks, history, ...

With
Code: 
rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
Firefox doesn't come up after five minutes.

With mount option:
Code: 
server:/export/users /home/users nfs,rw,tcp,nfsv3,hard,intr,[B]nolockd[/B],rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0
Firefox doesn't come up after five minutes.

Can someone please enlighten me?

Thanks.
 
junovitch said:
Does everything other than Firefox work just fine? Does NFS work from other hosts?
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All applications which don't need a lock like mutt et all are working well. NFS from every Linux host in the LAN works flawlessly.

junovitch said:
I haven't tested otherwise, but according to the handbook at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html both of these must be uncommented at the same time. Not just the one at the time you have shown.
Code: 
rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
rpc_statd_enable="YES
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The lockd starts the statd automatically, though. If enabled Firefox doesn't come up even after 5 minutes.
 
OK. That makes sense now. That is peculiar that locking is not working. I am assuming that your other Linux machines makes use of locking and Firefox works properly there. I would also guess that you haven't changed any of the /etc/default or /etc/sysconfig or equivalent settings used by NFS on Linux. I can't offer anything else and don't have the time to experiment myself. Perhaps giving NFSv4 a try and getting away from needing rpc.lockd and rpc.statd would be worthwhile.
 
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