[Solved] Starting NFS common utilities failed

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:40:57 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:

>>   statd+ start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --exec
>>   /sbin/rpc.statd
>> --
>>  + RET=1
> 
> Yep, same here.

Thanks for your helps, Dr. Morbius. I found the real reason, and file a 
bug report:

Starting NFS common utilities failed
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612002

"
The real reason is that the post install process of nfs-common
didn't deal with portmap:

 $ grep portmap /etc/runlevel.conf || echo not found
 not found

I.e., the portmap is not enabled by default as the daemon. 

Starting it manually solve the problem: . . .
"

check http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612002
for details. 

> . . . Googling suggests a missing config file or
> state file -- does /var/lib/nfs/ exist, and is it populated?
> 
>     /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm/state
>     /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm/*
>     /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm.bak/*

Just for the archive, in Debian the files are:

$ find /var/lib/nfs/
/var/lib/nfs/
/var/lib/nfs/sm.bak
/var/lib/nfs/state
/var/lib/nfs/sm
/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs

Thanks again. 

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