Re: NFS mounting errors

[Steve Dickson <SteveD redhat com>]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> After this mornings rawhide updates and a reboot, my nfs partitions now
> won't mount.  I am seeing the below errors when trying to mount them
> manually..
>
> [root scrappy init.d]# service nfslock restart
> Stopping NFS statd:                                        [FAILED]
> Starting NFS statd:                                        [FAILED]
>
> [root scrappy init.d]# service rpcbind restart
> Stopping rpcbind:                                          [FAILED]
>
> [root scrappy init.d]# mount /home/nfs/download
> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking
>    Either use "-o nolocks" to keep locks local, or start statd.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes... there appears to be a cut/past error in the initscript.
Make the following change or wait for a few to pull a new package
out of rawhide:
42c42
<       [ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] || exit 6
---
>       [ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 6

Sorry about that! I was just trying to conform the latest initscript
guidelines... :-\

steved.