hi, i have been running a Linux server for quite a long time now its running sles9 no problem untill th other day. i have several other machines that have NFS shares mounted on them from the server or shall i say did!

the client machines are fine no problem whatsoever i even reinstalled one of them to make sure. the problem is the server. i have done some investigating and the reason i can no longer mount any NFS shares is because of RPC . viewed my /var/log/boot.msg and it says something along the lines of RPC not registered.

i have tried mounting the nfs share on the server but this still didnt work. so i did a search on LQ.org and came up with sort of an answere. i cleared the contents of my /etc/hosts.deny file and rebooted the server. and tried to mount the NFS share again localy on the server and it worked. but i still cant mount nfs from the client workstations and in the /var/log/boot.msg it still says RPC not registered.

i have gathered that it is something to do with the RPC not been registered but i dont have a clue how to fix this apart from reinstalling the server which i am not prepered to do.

the other day a changed some networking settings and this is when the problems accured but just incase if it was them i have reverted all settings back to what they where but i still have the same problem.

does any body have any ideas on how to get the RPC working again is this is a very annoying problem and in am completely stumped.

thanks in advance for any help

berrance

On suse, I believe you have to start several nfs programs include nfs and nfsserver
You can do this with
/etc/init.d/nfs start
/etc/init.d/nfserver start

You might want to poke around /etc/init.d and see if there are any other init scripts that start with nfs

ls /etc/init.d/nfs*

and start all of those.

thanks but i have already tried that but it is alreday running.

the problem is definatly to do with RPC (Remote Preceadure Call, i think) not been registered, the only problem is i dont know how to register it or get it working. the annoying thing is it did work and has done for months!

/etc/init.d/portmapd status

RPC won't work with the portmap daemon which translates rpc program numbers into TCP ports.

portmap is running but it has always ran even when i didnt have this problem with the RPC

when i do rpcinfo -p i get this if this is any help


hull:~ # rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100024 1 udp 32773 status
100021 1 udp 32773 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 32773 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 32773 nlockmgr
100024 1 tcp 32818 status
100021 1 tcp 32818 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 32818 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 32818 nlockmgr
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100227 3 udp 2049 nfs_acl
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
100227 3 tcp 2049 nfs_acl
100005 1 udp 995 mountd
100005 1 tcp 998 mountd
100005 2 udp 995 mountd
100005 2 tcp 998 mountd
100005 3 udp 995 mountd
100005 3 tcp 998 mountd

also there is no firewall running on either the server or on any clients

does anybody know how i can start or register RPC?