Hi all,

When booting Slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.6.13.2 I get the following error returned by /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd :

lockdsvc: Function not implemented

This is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2, just before the NSM is loaded.

When trying to manually load /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd I get the same error.

Is this due to a bug in rpc.lockd, or can it be caused by me forgetting a setting when compiling my kernel?

The PC on which this happens mounts its user home directories and program directory from an NFS server. NFS functions even though rpc.lockd won't start, but these error messages tend to be bad omens, so I appreciate any insight as to how to fix this.

All other services load perfectly at boot...

Thanks!

-Y1

You did compile nfs server and client feature in kernel right ?

When you start the pc, does it show lockd process running with :

Thanks for your reply keefaz,

my "ps -ef | grep -i lock" shows :

root 113 5 0 Oct04 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root 2969 1 0 Oct04 ? 00:00:00 [lockd]

So what I assume is that lockd is loaded automagically by the kernel, thus rendering rpc.lockd obsolete. Reading the man-page confirms this, as I'm in 2.6 kernel...

-Y1

Yes, you could comment the relevant line in rc.inet2

Or much better solution :
This way you won't have to edit rc.inet2

hmm - maybe the rc.inet2 could have a test ammended:

if [ `uname -r | grep -q '^2\.4' ]; then
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
fi

That way it still works in 2.4 kernels, and doesn't give a bogus error report in 2.6
Thanks to Larhzu for the grep statement.

-Y1