NFS not playing videos since libnfs update

eightball70 · August 25, 2026 at 5:31 AM

This version is working.

https://paste.libreelec.tv/unarduous-debra.log

Reddog · August 25, 2026 at 3:46 PM

Quote from quickstang

I’ve got nothing. Keep updating to each nightly and still the same issue. Either my media starts then stutters, or it spins like it wants to start then kind of times out. Again, nothing after the nightly build on the 8th works. Revert back and 0 issues.

This is exactly my experience of the issue.

Just a shot in the dark, but can anyone who is having the problem confirm if their NAS nfs server is running NFSv3, which is my case, and that the libnfs update is somehow "favouring" NFSv4?

eightball70 · August 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM

Quote from Reddog

Just a shot in the dark, but can anyone who is having the problem confirm if their NAS nfs server is running NFSv3, which is my case, and that the libnfs update is somehow "favouring" NFSv4?

On my Synology NAS the max. NFS protocol is set to NFSv4.1 and it‘s not working after the libnfs update.

quickstang · August 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM

Not sure what my QNAP is set to, but I haven’t had a chance to try the link chewitt posted.

eightball70 you said the file in the link worked in an earlier post correct? So no issues?

eightball70 · August 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM

The link chewitt posted works like the last working nightly-20260808.

**chewitt** · August 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM

Quote from eightball70

On my Synology NAS the max. NFS protocol is set to NFSv4.1 and it‘s not working after the libnfs update.

Is the Kodi NFS client configured for NFSv4? - the default is NFSv3

eightball70 · August 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM

The client was set to NFSv3 so I downloaded latest nightly-20260825, configured it to NFSv4, rebooted and tried to play the file again, still not working.

**chewitt** · August 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM

Some analysis of Kodi and libnfs by Claude suggested https://github.com/sahlberg/libnf…d476e423ae0fff9 added between 6.0.2 and 7.0.0 causes the problem, and is solved in https://github.com/sahlberg/libnf…8e88ea7e15c3229 which has been merged since 7.0.0 that we bumped to; so please test https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…-12.95.1.img.gz which bumps libnfs to the current latest commit to include that, and report back.

eightball70 · August 26, 2026 at 3:29 PM

This version works without any problems.

https://paste.libreelec.tv/inkier-kecia.log

**chewitt** · August 27, 2026 at 5:32 AM

This will get merged later and should be in nightlies within 24-48h: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/11711

quickstang · August 28, 2026 at 9:13 AM

Working for me. No issues yet.

**chewitt** · August 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM

The libnfs maintainer bumped to 7.0.1 to ensure the already-merged fix for the issue we hit is picked up by mainstream distros that generally prefer tagged versions. LE is also bumped to this now; so problem solved (twice). Thanks for testing.