On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:57:08 -0500 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 01:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [...] > > >> [root@coyote etc]# service nfs restart > >> Shutting down NFS mountd: [FAILED] > >> Shutting down NFS daemon: [FAILED] > >> Shutting down NFS quotas: [FAILED] > >> Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS services: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS4 idmapd: Error: RPC MTAB does not exist. > > > >Well, I've no clue :(. But I can suggest that you might want to do > > away with quotas and I've no clue what the idmapd does. Can you get a > > regular old /etc/exports file to work with nfs-kernel-server? > > Here is the exports file: > /usr 192.168.xx.xx/255.255.255.0(rw,insecure,sync,no_root_squash) > /home/ 192.168.xx.xx/255.255.255.0(rw,insecure,sync,no_root_squash) > > Slightly obfuscated of course. And whats this 'nfs-kernel-server'? that's the init script to start nfs services. I'm confused here, is this your debian box or fc box? regardless, your problem is beyond my meager skills :(. If I were in your shoes, I'd probably purge the whole nfs system and start over, but I'm famous (at least in my own mind) for all or nothing solutions. A > Thats all built into the kernel IIRC, currently 2.6.16-rc1. From a > grep of the .config: > CONFIG_NFS_FS=y > CONFIG_NFS_V3=y > # CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL is not set > # CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set > # CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set > CONFIG_NFSD=y > CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y > # CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL is not set > # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set > CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y > CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y > > I suppose I could turn the rest of it on when I build -rc2 which should > be shortly released. > > >> And it will repeat that manta ad infinitum. > >> > >> [root@coyote etc]# service nfs restart > >> Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] > >> Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ] > >> Shutting down NFS quotas: [ OK ] > >> Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS services: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] > >> Starting NFS4 idmapd: Error: RPC MTAB does not exist. > >> > >> A man idmapd make no mention of that file... > > The second time it was of course already running so it didn't fail the > shutdown. I don't have it started in my normal bootup, no use wasting > cpu cycles on something that doesn't work. :) > > [...] > > -- > Cheers, Gene > People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word > 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's > stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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