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From: John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:21:10
Message-Id: e6b926b90709240507l3dcbc1d8u9de4c1ea49f652b7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered by Emil Beinroth
1 On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <emilbeinroth@×××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote:
4 > > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/
5 > [snip]
6 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old
7 >
8 > That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later
9 > removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this seems
10 > really wrong.
11 >
12 > I would suggest a clean cut by running `rm -fr /var/lib/init.d/`
13 > and doing a reboot. Services won't be stopped, but your filesystems will
14 > be remouted ro, so they should be fine. I've tested this on my box and
15 > didn't have any problems.
16
17
18 Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability
19 to start nfs automatically, or by hand.
20
21 I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log:
22
23 Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as
24 rpc.statdcould not start
25
26 Does that shed any light?
27
28 John

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