is NFS mounting borked in bb-1.1.1?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 24 March 2006 8:47 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   after upgrading to bb-1.1.1 earlier this morning, i have been
> > *utterly* unable to successfully NFS mount what used to work just fine
> > under bb-1.00.  (bb-1.1.1 on client, NFS server running on FC4
> > system.)
> >
> >   every mount attempt gives me:
> >
> >     mount: Mounting 10.1.1.100:/tmp on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > among other things i have:
> >
> >   1) pinged from each machine to the other to verify connectivity
> >   2) used "showmount" on the server to verify what's being shared
> >   3) restarted NFS on the server, just to play it safe
> >   4) used (non-bb) "showmount" command on client to verify what's
> > 	being shared on the server
> >   5) verified that portmap is running on the client
> >
> > etc., etc.
> >
> >   i recall much mount-related discussion lately but i don't remember
> > any of it having to do with NFS.  what am i missing?  thanks.
>
> I don't use nfs so I have no idea, but I'm pondering having a
> "busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch" in the download directory that we add to
> if we find stupid stuff like the losetup dependency thing.  (I'm not
> releasing a 1.1.1, but I can have a patch to fix known issues...)

just to verify, i backed off to bb-1.00 and NFS mounting began working
again.

rday