strange NFS status message

[Mike]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:11 -0800, Mike wrote:
> can't get NFS working on FC5, have tried /etc/exports and
> system-config-nfs. When I run /sbin/service nfs status, I get:
> 
> Shutting down NFS mountd: rpc.mountd (pid 4612) is running...
> nfsd (pid 4609 4608 4607 4606 4605 4604 4603 4600) is running...
> rpc.rquotad (pid 4596) is running...
> 
> Yup, I've tried stops and starts; SELinux settings make no difference
> (and I don't think there's any relationship there). I see nothing
> related in /var/log/messages
> 
> What am I missing? Where else should I look?

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Spec wrote: 
> Is portmap running?
> 
> service portmap status
> 
> If it isn't...
> 
> chkconfig portmap on
> service portmap start
> 
Portmap is running. Strangely enough, when I stop NFS, I get a similarly strange result:
$ sudo /sbin/service nfs stop
$ sudo /sbin/service nfs status
Shutting down NFS mountd: rpc.mountd is stopped
nfsd is stopped
rpc.rquotad is stopped

As if rpc.mountd is stuck in some strange cycle.