Re: 2.1.60 NFS probs...

Ketil Z Malde (ketil@ii.uib.no)
28 Oct 1997 15:52:21 +0100


Matthew Kirkwood <matthew.kirkwood@lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 2b 76 73
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 4.
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 163.1.138.129
> Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 163.1.138.129
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).

> Once root is mounted, various daemons fire off, and then the attempt
> to mount /home produces:
> portmap: RPC call returned error 111
> RPC: task of released request still queued!
> RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
> portmap: RPC call returned error 111
> RPC: task of released request still queued!
> RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
> lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111
> portmap: RPC call returned error 111
> RPC: task of released request still queued!
> RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)

> Although this may be due to the RH startup scripts producing a broken
> routing table. After this everything's OK and I can log in, fix the
> routes and fire up Quake, ftp, telnet, ssh, etc...

FWIW, I see the same kind of messages on 2.1.58 compiled on RH
thunderbird, when trying to mount up NFS volumes at boot. If make them
``noauto'' in fstab, I can mount them painlessly after boot.

The network card is 3Com Etherlink III, and the NFS server is a Solaris
box, if that matters.

~kzm

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