NFS4 startup error - RPC MTAB not found ??

[Patrick Boutilier]

Edward Hourigan wrote:
> When booting up, the script /etc/init.d/nfs reports:
> 
> Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS quotas:                                       [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS daemon:                                       [  OK  ]
> Starting NFS mountd:                                       [  OK  ]
> Starting rpcidmapd
> Starting NFS4 idmapd: Error: RPC MTAB does not exist.
> Starting rpc.svcgssd
> 
> 
> What is RPC MTAB?

I can get rid of the error by mounting the rpc_pipefs filesystem first.

mount -t rpc_pipefs sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/

> 
> Not sure if this is causing my NFS client problems or not.  Each client
> reports 'permission denied' when trying to mount NFS shares.

However I can't get any clients to mount NFS exports from Fedora Core 2 
servers. Did you have any luck? Has anybody successfully ran a Fedora 
Core 2 NFS V3 server?


> 
> 
> System:
> cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora Core release 1.92 (FC2 Test 3)
> 
> uname -a
> Linux dell1 2.6.4 #1 Sun Mar 21 09:10:35 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Edward Hourigan <_edhlinux at twcny.rr.com_ <mailto:edhlinux at twcny.rr.com>>
>