Failed starting rpc.mountd

[Rick Stevens]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:12, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:38, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>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.
> 
> 
> Aaah... I think I know the problem. I am exporting a directory which is owned 
> by user.group that does not exist in the local system, since that user and 
> group are specified by the NIS server. That might cause NFS to fail. 

Indeed!

> Thanks a lot for the help.

Hey, you figured it out...we were just a sounding board!  ;-)
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