Failed starting rpc.mountd

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:12, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:38, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> > Nothing in /etc/rc.local (it's still in standard install). I don't have
> > iptables running (from system-config-securitylevel Firewall is disabled)
> > since I am on a LAN behind a firewall anyway. It's pretty weird. I've
> > looked at the init scripts and couldn't see anything obvious. Could
> > SELinux be the problem ? The machine also running ypbind for network
> > authentication, but I can't see why that should be a problem....
>
> Well, ypbind does start after netfs and if you're mounting things as
> someone other than root at boot time, that could be an issue.

Aaah... I think I know the problem. I am exporting a directory which is owned 
by user.group that does not exist in the local system, since that user and 
group are specified by the NIS server. That might cause NFS to fail. 

Thanks a lot for the help.
RDB