NFS statd fails to start

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While booting F9, I NFS statd fails to start. Any ideas?
>
> What troubleshooting steps have you taken? More details are needed.
> The mandatory questions: have you checked your logs for messages? Do you
> get any errors? Have you searched the archives for answers?

Thanks, Aldo. My logs after I run '/sbin/service nfs start" are:

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Sep  6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:46:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:47:20 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel
failed: errno 5 (Input/output error)
Sep  6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:47:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:47:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: writing fds to kernel
failed: errno 5 (Input/output error)
Sep  6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery
as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
Sep  6 20:47:50 localhost kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
Sep  6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:48:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:48:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:49:16 localhost acpid: client connected from 2400[0:0]
Sep  6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).
Sep  6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: last server has exited
Sep  6 20:49:20 localhost kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems
Sep  6 20:49:50 localhost nfsd[7023]: nfssvc: Input/output error
Sep  6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: rpcbind: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Sep  6 20:49:50 localhost kernel: RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind
server (errno 5).

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Any ideas?

Paul