From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 Description of problem: We have a Compaq Tru64 4.0g machine exporting using nfs a directory containing the RedHat 7.3 install tree. The install program (on the network boot disk) is unable to mount the nfs directory even though it exists. This is not due to the install program not finding the correct files in the tree, but the mount command fails. Also (nul) is printed on to the background of the install screen. The install program is able to mount the directory for a RH7.2 and a Sun machine. Once RH7.3 is installed from cdrom, it is also able to mount the directory from the Tru64 machine the standard way. I suspect this is due to the options being used to mount the directory, but this requires more investigation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run network install program 2. Choose nfs install 3. Point install program to nfs export on a Tru64 4.0g machine Actual Results: Install cannot mount specified directory. Expected Results: Should have been able to mount directory. Additional info: Here is the rpcinfo output for the tru64 machine: program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 395179 1 tcp 1023 395177 1 tcp 1021 395176 1 tcp 1022 395175 1 tcp 1018 100005 1 udp 1030 mountd 100005 3 udp 1030 mountd 200023 1 udp 1030 100005 1 tcp 717 mountd 100005 3 tcp 717 mountd 100024 1 udp 1032 status 100024 1 tcp 1025 status 100021 1 tcp 1026 nlockmgr 100021 3 tcp 1026 nlockmgr 100021 4 tcp 1026 nlockmgr 100021 2 tcp 1026 nlockmgr 100020 3 tcp 1026 llockmgr 100021 1 udp 1033 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 1033 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 1033 nlockmgr 100021 2 udp 1033 nlockmgr 100020 3 udp 1033 llockmgr 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs 100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs 100004 2 udp 632 ypserv 100004 2 tcp 633 ypserv 100004 1 udp 632 ypserv 100004 1 tcp 633 ypserv 100007 2 tcp 638 ypbind 100007 2 udp 640 ypbind 100007 1 tcp 638 ypbind 100007 1 udp 640 ypbind 100009 1 udp 1022 yppasswdd 100069 1 udp 653 ypxfrd 100069 1 tcp 655 ypxfrd 100011 1 udp 1057 rquotad 100068 2 udp 1058 100068 3 udp 1058 100068 4 udp 1058 100083 1 tcp 1028
Matt do you have any ideas?
More data: the installer uses the NFS options ro,v2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,udp,nolock when mounting the install tree. A mount of the Tru64 system from a 7.2 and 7.3 system using these options works, so it doesn't appear to be the options which are the problem. I suppose the only other differences are nfs-utils and the kernel on the install disk.
I think this should be fixed with our current codebase. No Tru64 boxes handy to test against, though.