Also having NFSv4 problems

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Mon Jan 4 06:00:31 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:05 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> ... snip ...
> > The problem appears to be on the F12 client side:
> >
> > # service nfs restart
> > Shutting down NFS mountd:                                  [FAILED]
> > Shutting down NFS daemon:                                  [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down NFS quotas:                                  [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down NFS services:                                [FAILED]
> > Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS quotas:                                       [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS daemon:                                       [  OK  ]
> > Starting NFS mountd: Usage: rpc.mountd [-F|--foreground] [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [
> > -d kind|--debug kind]
> >         [-o num|--descriptors num] [-f exports-file|--exports-file=file]
> >         [-p|--port port] [-V version|--nfs-version version]
> >         [-N version|--no-nfs-version version] [-n|--no-tcp]
> >         [-H ha-callout-prog] [-s|--state-directory-path path]
> >         [-g|--manage-gids] [-t num|--num-threads=num]
> >                                                            [FAILED]
> >
> >
> > About four years ago I was able to set up a similar arrangement
> > using nfs3 on RHEL4 and F6, but this is my first attempt with nfs4.
> > I seem to be having the same problem Robert P.J. Day is having with
> > rpc.mountd.
> 
>   a private emailer tells me that what's causing the problem above is
> deselecting the NFSv1 line from /etc/sysconfig/nfs.  apparently, that
> causes the problem so you should try this:
> 
> #MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
> 
> weirdly, that fixes that last problem.  why should that be?

Robert,

Weird is right. It does fix the nfs restart problem, but not the manual
nfs mount problem. There's something else still lurking. Thanks.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL




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