refused unmount request

J. Bruce Fields bfields at fieldses.org
Fri May 16 17:28:50 EDT 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:44:07AM +0200, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I reboot a client or when I umount his nfs mounts
> manually I get the following logs on server:
> 
> 
> May 12 14:58:53 glaukos mountd[3607]: refused unmount request from lakshmi.ga.local for /home (/): not exported
> May 12 14:58:53 glaukos mountd[3607]: authenticated unmount request from lakshmi.ga.local:679 for /exports/var/lib/software (/exports/var/lib/software)
> May 12 14:58:53 glaukos mountd[3607]: authenticated unmount request from lakshmi.ga.local:680 for /exports/data (/exports/data)
> 
> 
> I dont understand why there is a problem with
> umounting /home. I dont see any difference to
> the /data share.

The log file is saying that the client is trying to send unmount
requests to the server's mountd.  An nfsv4 client shouldn't have to talk
to the server's mountd at all, so that's a bug somewhere on the client
side.

On the other hand, it's probably a harmless bug, so you can ignore those
messages.

--b.

> 
> 
> /etc/exports:
> /exports                   *(fsid=0,ro,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
> /exports/home              *.ga.local(rw,nohide,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
> /exports/data              *.ga.local(rw,nohide,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
> /exports/var/lib/software  -rw,nohide,no_root_squash,async,no_subtree_check *.ga.local *(ro)
> 
> /etc/fstab:
> glaukos:/home              /home              nfs4  defaults 0 0
> glaukos:/data              /data              nfs4  defaults 0 0
> glaukos:/var/lib/software  /var/lib/software  nfs4  defaults 0 0
> 
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> greets,
> Rudi
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