Re the linux-nfs package: The stuff outside the kernel directory does not
compile either.
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > I am running a Debian Hamm system (glibc) with the newest tools etc and I
> > am trying to test 2.1.72 in a production environment after having run
> > 2.1.X for awhile as a workstation.
> >
> > Some of the issues:
> >
> > 1. I keep getting strange RPC messages on bootup although I am using
> > userland NFS. (Kernel NFS compiled it but not used)
> >
> > Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
> > Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: task of released request still
> > queued!
> > Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
> > Dec 16 14:48:40 deborah kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
>
> A number of people have reported this problem, and it seems to be caused
> by the portmapper being started too late. Error 111 is "connection
> refused". Are your startup scripts trying to bring up NFS too early?
>
>
> > 3. The Kernel NFS tools from Olaf seem to be abandoned. I was not able to
> > build them under glibc. A while ago I used them under libc5 (Around
> > 2.1.30) and experienced general flaky behavior. Is it worth an attempt to
> > try again?
>
> Do you mean the linux-nfs package? It's needed if you want to use knfsd,
> but you don't need to compile the kernel directory.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>