HELP: "rpcbind: server localhost not responding"

[Aldo Foot]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 15 January 2009 12:35:14 Rick Stevens wrote:
>> > Reg Clemens wrote:
>> > > HELP - I have built a new kernel (to add some options) and I have
>> > > obviously missed something important... but I cant find it.
>> > >
>> > > With THIS new kernel, during the boot, I get the message
>> > >
>> > >   rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out
>> > >   RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errorno 5)
>>
>> if you use tcp wrappers, you may need to enable 127.0.0.1 with access to
>> rpcbind in hosts.allow
>>
>
> Nope, thats not it.

Here's my $0.02

Check that the rpcbind service is running on both the client and the server.

In order to allow nfsClient.com to mount from the nfs server put
these lines in server's /etc/hosts.allow:

        "rpcbind: nfsClient.com"
        "mountd: nfsClient.com"

HTH,
~af