Re: nfs client error w/2.1.76

Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@transmeta.com)
03 Jan 1998 23:04:16 -0800


kwrohrer@enteract.com writes:

> As I was rebooting my NFS server, I got plenty of:
>
> nfs_revalidate_inode: getattr failed, error=-111
> nfs: RPC call returned error 111
> RPC: task of released request still queued!
> RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)

You're probably using RedHat. portmap isn't started until after NFS
is running, which breaks at some recent point in the 2.1 series.
portmap should be started right after basic networking. Try this:

# cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
# mv S40portmap S12portmap
# reboot

Dan