On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:44 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > When I boot my machine, I often get something like the following : > > Starting NFS mountd: [ Failed ] > > immediately after the booting process finish, I can issue "service nfs > restart" as root and then NFS starts correctly. Any idea what might cause > this ? > > Here is from my /var/log/messages during boot: > > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant exportfs[2520]: /etc/exports [1]: No 'sync' or 'async' > option specified for export "192.168.0.100/255.255.255.0:/home/multimedia". > Assuming default behaviour ('sync'). NOTE: this default has changed from > previous versions > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 > okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev nfsd, type nfsd), > uses genfs_contexts > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant portmap[2546]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(mountd): > request from unprivileged port > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant rpc.mountd: unable to register (mountd, 3, tcp). > Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '' failed: errno 2 (No > such file or directory) > > And /etc/exports: > /home/multimedia 192.168.0.100/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) > > Thanks for any help. > > RDB > Is portmapper running? What's the output of rpcinfo -p -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx J.O.A.T. GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64