On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:25 -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > Hi, > > An interesting problem with NFS on FC4. I built a > vanilla kernel 2.6.15.6 with NFS options all set to > 'y', then after compilation NFS functions are all > statically built into kernel, not as loadable modules. > > But after I reboot the machine and boots up with new > kernel, the NFS function fails whining can not locate > sunrpc module!! It sucks since sunrpc is already > statically built-into kernel! > > I tried to mount NFS share on this nfs server from on > itself, but the mount operations all failed, though > rpc.mountd authenticated without problems. > > Any one know why? > > [root@testnode01 ~]# /etc/init.d/nfs restart > Shutting down NFS mountd: > [ OK ] > Shutting down NFS daemon: > [ OK ] > Shutting down NFS quotas: > [ OK ] > Shutting down NFS services: > [ OK ] > Starting NFS services: > [ OK ] > Starting NFS quotas: > [ OK ] > Starting NFS daemon: > [ OK ] > Starting NFS mountd: > [ OK ] > Starting RPC idmapd: FATAL: Module sunrpc not found. > FATAL: Error running install command for sunrpc > [root@testnode01 ~]# > > [root@testnode01 ~]# mount testnode01:/1 /mnt > mount: testnode01:/1 failed, reason given by server: > Permission denied > > > In /var/log/messages: > ... > Mar 17 14:27:48 testnode01 rpc.mountd: authenticated > mount request from testnode01.example > .com:693 for /1 (/1) > ... > The problem is not having the NFS compiled into the kernel. (I use regularly on embedded systems I create). Your configuration seems to be problematic. What's the value of CONFIG_SUNRPC? $ cd /usr/src/linux $ cat .config | grep SUNRPC Gilboa
