I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have know about setting up nfs from having used it long ago.
I found a brief help page on google that I used to get this far along at: http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/09/howto-setup-nfs-server-on-gentoo.html Its very brief and has no debugging info. Also I see nothing about debugging in /etc/conf.d/nfs either. After setting all nfs related kernel items and booting the kernel. Checking that mods appears to be installed and running. Making sure portmapper is running. Then when I try to start nfs service if it fails. Producing these messages in syslogd: Jan [...] nfsd[29077]: nfssvc: Protocol not supported Jan [...' : RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5). Only one of the nfssvc lines appear but the RPC line appears several times. I got the impression from google that nfssvc was related to nfs4 so may not mean too much ... but not sure. I don't really know what info would be helpfull but have included output from emerge, rpcinfo, lsmod and related kernel settings: qlop [...] Sat Jan 10 18:30:11 2009 >>> net-libs/libnfsidmap-0.21-r1 Sat Jan 10 18:30:30 2009 >>> net-nds/portmap-6.0 Sat Jan 10 18:31:20 2009 >>> dev-libs/libevent-1.4.9 Sat Jan 10 18:32:39 2009 >>> net-fs/nfs-utils-1.1.4 ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== kernel: # grep 'NFS\|RPC' .config # CONFIG_AF_RXRPC is not set CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y CONFIG_NFS_V4=y CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=m CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=m CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m CONFIG_SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4=y CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5=m # CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 is not set ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== rpcinfo -p localhost # rpcinfo -p localhost program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100024 1 udp 34971 status 100024 1 tcp 43460 status 100005 1 udp 34365 mountd 100005 1 tcp 44349 mountd 100005 2 udp 34365 mountd 100005 2 tcp 44349 mountd 100005 3 udp 34365 mountd 100005 3 tcp 44349 mountd ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== lsmod Module Size Used by nfs 206772 0 nfsd 185008 9 lockd 55160 2 nfs,nfsd nfs_acl 2688 2 nfs,nfsd auth_rpcgss 28548 1 nfsd sunrpc 144584 9 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss exportfs 3456 1 nfsd fuse 42268 0 usbhid 13588 0 usbmouse 3712 0 usbkbd 4992 0 floppy 45348 0 pcspkr 2176 0 i2c_i801 7952 0 r8169 26500 0 i2c_core 17680 1 i2c_i801 mii 4224 1 r8169 snd_intel8x0 25500 0 snd_ac97_codec 88352 1 snd_intel8x0 ehci_hcd 28684 0 uhci_hcd 18444 0 ac97_bus 1536 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 48008 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 15364 1 snd_pcm snd 34788 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer usbcore 104760 6 usbhid,usbmouse,usbkbd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd snd_page_alloc 7304 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm intel_agp 22588 1 agpgart 25520 1 intel_agp button 5904 0
