[K12OSN] NFS fails to start

Kenneth Lundström kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi
Wed May 1 20:48:34 UTC 2013


Hmmm, I'm running CentOS 6.4 on the server. I thought I was using 6.3 
but maybe one thing I did at some stage was a yum upgrade. The other 
server is running 6.3. Could this maybe be the problem?

Client boot on Scientific.


Kenneth

> Hmm. what version OS are you running? CentOS/ScientificLinux/RHEL 5 or 6?
>
> 'chkconfig nfs on' will run nfs at bootup.
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kenneth Lundström 
> <kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi <mailto:kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     changed and no change :=) I even rebooted the server but no luck.
>     The strange thing is that NFS is not set to be automatically
>     started. So I guess something I have installed on the server has
>     turned of NFS and somehow makes NFS not to work.
>
>     I even tried to compare with the other working server but no luck.
>
>
>     Kenneth
>
>>     change:
>>
>>     # Turn off v4 protocol support
>>     #RPCNFSDARGS="-N 4"
>>
>>
>>     to:
>>
>>     # Turn off v4 protocol support
>>     RPCNFSDARGS="-N 4"
>>
>>     to disable NFSv4
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Kenneth Lundström
>>     <kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi
>>     <mailto:kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         when I look at the /etc/sysconfig/nfs all rows are commented
>>         out.
>>
>>         Any other way of finding out what version is in use?
>>
>>
>>         Kenneth
>>
>>>         OK. Look in /etc/sysconfig/nfs and see what version of NFS
>>>         is being used. If NFSv4 is on, your /etc/exports is wrong.
>>>         Change settings to use NFSv3 in that location and restart nfs.
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kenneth Lundström
>>>         <kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi
>>>         <mailto:kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi,
>>>
>>>             /etc/exports:
>>>             /opt/ltsp *(ro,async,no_root_squash)
>>>
>>>             getenforce: Disabled
>>>
>>>
>>>             Kenneth
>>>
>>>>             please publish the /etc/exports file on the broken
>>>>             server as well as the output of getenforce
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kenneth Lundström
>>>>             <kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi
>>>>             <mailto:kenneth.lundstrom at nudata.fi>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Hello LTSP users,
>>>>
>>>>                 a couple of months before Christmas I installed a
>>>>                 couple of LTSP servers. One was commissioned before
>>>>                 Christmas and is working great. The second I
>>>>                 delivered to another place a couple of weeks ago,
>>>>                 finally. This site already have one LTSP from
>>>>                 before and I was planing on replacing it. Using it
>>>>                 as an fileserver for homes folders.
>>>>
>>>>                 I setup it up and clients find it and they work.
>>>>                 Then I proceed to mount the home folder via NFS and
>>>>                 get them mounted. I leave the place and next they I
>>>>                 get an call that they can't login anymore. I try to
>>>>                 find the error via SSH but can't. So I switch back
>>>>                 to using the old server again.
>>>>
>>>>                 Now I come so far that I know that NFS doesn't
>>>>                 start for some strange reason. If I do a
>>>>                 /etc/init.d/nfs restart I get an error saying:
>>>>
>>>>                 exportfs: /opt/ltsp does not support NFS export
>>>>
>>>>                 I tried googling it but couldn't find anything that
>>>>                 would work for me.
>>>>
>>>>                 Any ideas where to start searching. I think it has
>>>>                 something to do with me setting up the homes folder
>>>>                 mounting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                 Kenneth
>>>>
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