Re: [gentoo-user] nfs server problem

[Roger Mason]

Hi Dan,

Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> writes:

> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:30 -0230
> Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed a vanilla 2.6.20 kernel in order to (eventually) run
>> kerrighed.  The kernel boots fine but the nfs server won't start and I
>> see this in the logs:
>>
>> Oct  3 07:34:40 lowalbite rpc.statd[103835]: Version 1.1.0 Starting
>> Oct  3 07:34:41 lowalbite nfsd: last server has exited
>> Oct  3 07:34:41 lowalbite nfsd: unexporting all filesystems
>> Oct  3 07:34:41 lowalbite nfsd[103901]: nfssvc: Address already in use
>>

> It seems like there's two options: either you're trying to run 2 nfs
> servers, or you're trying to run nfs threads that for some reason
> conflict with each other.
>
> anyway, the solution I suggest is checking the output of 'netstat -l -p
> -n' to see whether anything really is listening on those ports.  If
> not, try using a quick script to keep reading the output of the
> previous netstat command and checking consistantly to see whether
> anything's listening on those ports while you restart nfs.
> --

That is agood idea -- I'll try it tomorrow.  In the meantime I am
working round it by setting the port(s) in /etc/conf.d/nfs, but it
would certainly be cleaner to find and eliminated the conflict.

Thanks for your help.

Roger

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