No locking in nfs

[arnaldo]

I just installed a Feisty nfs server. Clients can mount, read and write, but cannot lock files.
On the server, rpc.statd is running, and it has the right permissions to access
/var/lib/nfs/sm*.

A typical entry in /etc/exports:

/export client(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check,no_ auth_nlm)

(I have added no_auth_nlm as an attempt to solve the problem)

On the client's /etc/fstab:

server:/export/home /home nfs defaults,soft,rw,tcp 0 0

The problem seems to be flock failure.

Any ideas?

[puelocesar]

I'm having the same problem with Feisty clients here. Our homes are located in a nfs partition on a Suse Server, and now that I updated my Ubuntu to feisty some things like kde are not working anymore, as they fail to "lock lock files".

My /etc/fstab entry:
10.90.67.4:/home /home nfs rw,hard,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0

If you solve your problem please report back. Thanks.

[puelocesar]

Ha!

I installed the following packages on my clients: nfs-common and liblockfile1, now everything works fine.

The strange thing was that everything was working except from the lock files.. Even without nfs-common, that are NFS support files common to client and server...