nfs / mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed

[gary artim]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:38 AM, gary artim <gartim at gmail.com> wrote:
> after some digging around I found that the kernel task
> [lockd] is missing on one of the systems. The other the
> [lockd] magically reappeared and nfs is working on it.
>
> I know that somehow /etc/init.d/nfslock spawn this kernel task, but not
> sure why this would be happening. It seemed to begin with installing
> nfs-utils, but I'm to tired to go on investigating. Please help if you can,
>
> thanks Gary
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM, gary artim <gartim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi --
>>
>> Applied updates tonight and now both servers that connect to my nfs
>> server are failing to
>> connect, complete error messge is:
>>
>> mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'rpcbind' failed: RPC Error: Program
>> not registered
>> mount.nfs: internal error
>>
>> stuck with basically 2 down clients since all directories are nfs'ed.
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> rpm -qa|grep nfs
>> nfs-utils-1.1.2-9.fc9.x86_64
>> nfs-utils-lib-1.1.1-5.fc9.x86_64
>>
>>
>> i tried reverting back to
>> nfs-utils-1.1.2-2.fc9.x86_64

wget http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/nfs-utils/1.1.2/10.fc9/x86_64/nfs-utils-1.1.2-10.fc9.x86_64.rpm
yum remove nfs-utils
rpm -Uvh  nfs-utils-1.1.2-10.fc9.x86_64.rpm  (( on both the server and
the clients ))

fixed my problem, fyi.