Re: knfsd works, sort of.

Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 18:43:57 -0800


On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 06:52:18PM -0500, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Greg Alexander wrote:
> > Nov 16 17:43:56 barn kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
> > Nov 16 17:43:56 barn last message repeated 3 times
> > Nov 16 17:43:56 barn kernel: portmap: server localhost not responding, \
> > timed out
> >
> > it continues on its merry way after that, though. I run mount-2.7f, btw.
>
> Not sure what's wrong here .. maybe things are starting in the wrong
> order?

Yep. The portmapper needs to be started _before_ you mount remote
filesystems so that the kernel's lockd can register itself. On at
least standard Red Hat systems, the portmapper is started later in
the boot sequence.

r~