Hi, all,
I have 2 gentoo machines, lotus and tobey. tobey is an nfs server to
lotus.
Today I upgraded tobey, and now nfs doesn't work. Previously, it worked for
years. The symptoms are:
1) mount -v /mnt/tobey on lotus returns
mount: RPC: Program not registered
2) /etc/init.d/nfs start on tobey produces no output, no running
nfsd daemons, and exit code 1.
3) There is nothing particularly informative (to me)
in the system logs. There is one instance of
tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as rpc.statd could not start
after the reboot following today's upgrade.
I've started rpc.statd by hand and then attempted to start nfs,
but nfs still does not start. There is no information in the system
log explaining why.
4) I've done the usual google search, and followed the advice of
other people who have had this problem, and I have read the
available Gentoo Wiki documents that discuss this problem
and followed the advice there. The result: nfs still does not
start.
5) tobey is a machine which doesn't like to start various daemons
when it boots despite their being managed by rc-update. I have
no idea why - this situation started a few months ago after an
upgrade. I start them by hand after reboots.
6) I always do revdep-rebuild and always follow the post installation
instructions mailed by portage's elog facility.
So, any brilliant ideas about why I can't start nfs or how to debug the
problem?
As always, thanks for your help!
John Blinka
