> Hi, > > I am currently experimenting with FAI for sarge. Since (approx.) last > week I ran into problems when installing specific packages: > > Every time a package postinst tries to add a user or a group, there > comes the error message > "rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - > Connection timed out" > > It looks like the portmapper on the installation client is not running > as it should -- when using addgroup, there is a process > "/usr/bin/rpcinfo -p", and this one seems to hang. >
Just a few questions: - Which kernel are you using for your setup? - Can you find anything unusual in the output of dmesg? - Could you find out, where rpcinfo -p is invoked? What happens, if you run it yourself? - Could you test an installation using the example-configuration (simple) provided with FAI? Thanks in advance, Michael PS.: Judging from your output of strace, portmap starts up fine - it just forks ...
