Services error -- new to me !?

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Jul 8 02:15:11 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:49 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Thanks Craig;
> 
> I am too worn out to start a new trip down learning lane tonight.
> 
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:05 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > > 
> > > Just today I started getting the following error message while
> > > initiating (booting) Fedora 9.
> > > 
> > >         "Jul  7 19:24:30 CASE rpc.idmapd[1898]: libnfsidmap: Unable to
> > >         determine a default nfsv4 domain; consider specifying one in
> > >         idmapd.conf"
> > > 
> > > 'man' and googled for rpc.idmapd, ibnfsidmap and idmapd.conf. They were
> > > written in the usual computer explanatory Greek.  None of them exist on
> > > my system.  Not quite clear who or what they belong to; recently yum
> > > upgraded some applications.  Could one of those upgrades be looking for
> > > something to configure??
> > ----
> > scratch that...perhaps restart rcpidmap
> 
> Got the following;
> 
> ]# service rpcidmapd restart
> Stopping RPC idmapd:                                       [FAILED]
> Starting RPC idmapd: rpc.idmapd: libnfsidmap: Unable to determine a
> default nfsv4 domain; consider specifying one in idmapd.conf
> 
> rpc.idmapd: Unable to create name to user id mappings.
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> I just don't have the energy to decipher all this tonight.
> 
Gave it one last try: got it working.  Domain line was commented out.
Apparently I am now 'Domain = local.domain.edu'
-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1




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