Bug#621773: nfs-kernel-server will not start since upgrade to 1.2.3

[Mike Ricketts <mike@earth.li>]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Luk Claes wrote:

> > The upgrade to nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common completely broke NFS >
> (client and server) for me.
> > I have tried switching from portmap to rpcbind - this change the
> errors but did not help.
>
> portmap unfortunately does not work with libtirpc which is the successor
> of the glibc sunrpc implementation. So switching from portmap to rpcbind
> is a good idea anyway.
Sure

> > dmesg contains lots of:
> > RPC: server localhost requires stronger authentication.
> then
> > svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97)
>
> I guess you don't allow 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.allow? It looks like
> rpcbind needs that.
hosts.allow was originally empty, as was hosts.deny
I tried adding this to hosts.allow but it did not help:
ALL: localhost
ALL: 127.0.0.1


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