[K12OSN] NFS fails to start

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 1 20:39:10 UTC 2013


Hmm. what version OS are you running? CentOS/ScientificLinux/RHEL 5 or 6?

'chkconfig nfs on' will run nfs at bootup.


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kenneth Lundström <
kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> changed and no change :=) I even rebooted the server but no luck. The
> strange thing is that NFS is not set to be automatically started. So I
> guess something I have installed on the server has turned of NFS and
> somehow makes NFS not to work.
>
> I even tried to compare with the other working server but no luck.
>
>
> Kenneth
>
>   change:
>
> # Turn off v4 protocol support
> #RPCNFSDARGS="-N 4"
>
>
>  to:
>
> # Turn off v4 protocol support
> RPCNFSDARGS="-N 4"
>
>  to disable NFSv4
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Kenneth Lundström <
> kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> when I look at the /etc/sysconfig/nfs all rows are commented out.
>>
>> Any other way of finding out what version is in use?
>>
>>
>> Kenneth
>>
>>    OK. Look in /etc/sysconfig/nfs and see what version of NFS is being
>> used. If NFSv4 is on, your /etc/exports is wrong. Change settings to use
>> NFSv3 in that location and restart nfs.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kenneth Lundström <
>> kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> /etc/exports:
>>> /opt/ltsp *(ro,async,no_root_squash)
>>>
>>> getenforce: Disabled
>>>
>>>
>>> Kenneth
>>>
>>>   please publish the /etc/exports file on the broken server as well as
>>> the output of getenforce
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kenneth Lundström <
>>> kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello LTSP users,
>>>>
>>>> a couple of months before Christmas I installed a couple of LTSP
>>>> servers. One was commissioned before Christmas and is working great. The
>>>> second I delivered to another place a couple of weeks ago, finally. This
>>>> site already have one LTSP from before and I was planing on replacing it.
>>>> Using it as an fileserver for homes folders.
>>>>
>>>> I setup it up and clients find it and they work. Then I proceed to
>>>> mount the home folder via NFS and get them mounted. I leave the place and
>>>> next they I get an call that they can't login anymore. I try to find the
>>>> error via SSH but can't. So I switch back to using the old server again.
>>>>
>>>> Now I come so far that I know that NFS doesn't start for some strange
>>>> reason. If I do a /etc/init.d/nfs restart I get an error saying:
>>>>
>>>> exportfs: /opt/ltsp does not support NFS export
>>>>
>>>> I tried googling it but couldn't find anything that would work for me.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas where to start searching. I think it has something to do with
>>>> me setting up the homes folder mounting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kenneth
>>>>
>>>>
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
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