NFS4 startup error - RPC MTAB not found ??

[Greg Wildman]

Edward Hourigan said the following on 14/06/2004 13:45:
> 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?
> 
> Not sure if this is causing my NFS client problems or not.  Each client
> reports 'permission denied' when trying to mount NFS shares.

You need to have the sunrpc module loaded which mounts the rpc_pipes 
filesystem.


grep -v '^#' /proc/mounts | awk '{ if ($3 ~ /^rpc_pipefs$/ ) print $2}'

should give you the following:

/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs

If not, check that your sunrpc module is loading correctly. Try loading 
it manually,

modprobe sunrpc


--
Greg