Workstation not exporting

[martin olivera_1]

A couple of our old DEC's are running version 4.0E
Both suddenly stopped exporting filesystems. I tried:

> showmount -e

got:

localhost: RPC: Program not registered

Thought nfs had died so I did:

# ./S19nfs start

got:

./S19nfs: 9575 Memory fault
Unable to start mount daemon service
NFS export service started
NFS IO service started

Looks like a licensing issue. Any clues?

TIA,

Martin

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

I would stop nfs and then start it and look for the portmap daemon. Also have a look into the syslog.dated log files.

greetings,

Michael

[martin olivera_1]

# ./S19nfs stop
# ./S19nfs start
./S19nfs: 14435 Memory fault
Unable to start mount daemon service
NFS export service started
NFS IO service started

# ps aux | grep portmap

root 307 0.0 0.0 2.13M 128K ?? I Mar 11 0:03.09 /usr/sbin/portmap

portmap is running.

syslog.dated only goes back to 3/24. This happened at an earlier date.

[Ralf Puchner]

stop nfs, check for defunc and running processes. Be sure you are using RFC compliant hostnames (e.g. without "_").

If this doesn't help start nfs script with

# sh -x ./S19nfs start

and post the line leading to the problem.

btw. "registered" have nothing in common with any licensing problem! It means the service can not be contacted.