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I stumbled on a strange problem regarding NFS, which I hadn’t used for a while on my server. I had some old exports which worked last time I used them, but not any more. I was doing an rsync and suddenly saw messages about chgrp or chmod failing. These messages are expected when uid/gid is not matching between server and client, so what’s up?

Running dmesg showed me messages like these:

Looking in /var/log/syslog I saw messages like these:

I finally found a working solution here.