Failed starting rpc.mountd

[Rick Stevens]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:38, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>>Strange. I have the same start up scripts. It's a standard FC 4
>>>install...
>>
>>Do you do anything funky in, say, rc.local that may affect things
>>such as turning off iptables?  The thing to do is check any scripts
>>that are after S25xxxxxx to see if they futz with the network.  You'll
>>probably find something that undoes something done before the S25netfs
>>script runs, i.e. S08iptables enables iptables, S25netfs fails because
>>iptables blocks it, then S99local kills a rule in iptables and a
>>subsequent "mount -a -t nfs" works because the rule isn't there anymore.
> 
> 
> Nothing in /etc/rc.local (it's still in standard install). I don't have 
> iptables running (from system-config-securitylevel Firewall is disabled) 
> since I am on a LAN behind a firewall anyway. It's pretty weird. I've looked 
> at the init scripts and couldn't see anything obvious. Could SELinux be the 
> problem ? The machine also running ypbind for network authentication, but I 
> can't see why that should be a problem.... 

Well, ypbind does start after netfs and if you're mounting things as
someone other than root at boot time, that could be an issue.

I doubt that seLinux is the issue, since it takes affect early and
doesn't get turned off later.
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