NFS Client Subsystem Failure

[Justin Fisher]

I am recieving the following error while booting my HP 9000 Server: I don't know where to begin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Start NFS client subsystem
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start":
----------------------------
starting NFS CLIENT networking

starting up the portmapper
portmap already started, using pid: 526
starting up the BIO daemons
/usr/sbin/biod 4
exportfs error: nothing to export.
Reading in /etc/exports
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
starting up the Automount daemon
/usr/sbin/automount -f /etc/auto_master
FAILURE CODE: 1
mounting remote NFS file systems ...
"/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start" FAILED

[MARTINACHE]

Hi,

We need some informations :

* cat /etc/auto_master

Maybe in this file you will find a line such as "/- /etc/auto_direct"

Then :

* cat /etc/auto_direct

Try mount every thing in /etc/auto_direct manually :

mount -F nfs -osoft,retry=3,intr server:/exported_directory /mount_point

Perharps, you will find something wrong.

If you don't need NFS client try to remove each line in the /etc/auto_master file and reboot. If your system boot without error then the problem is in this file.

Other informatins needed :

NFS client and server version ?

Regards,

Patrice.

[Justin Fisher]

Please excuse my ignorance :-( I have inherited this system and have not done a whole lot of unix administration since college. There is only one line in my auto_master file and it is as follows:
/net -hosts -soft
I don't have any other entries. How would I find out which versions of automount & nfs I am running? Thank you so0000 much for your quick reply.

[MARTINACHE]

Version of HP-UX ?

Could you give the result of this command :

grep -v "^#" /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Result of :
cat /etc/exports

Did you you try to remove everything in your /etc/auto_master file and reboot your system ?

[Justin Fisher]

I removed things from auto_master and rebooted and things seems to working okay. rc.log does not report any errors. Thank you so much for your help.

[MARTINACHE]

Hi,

Don't forget to add points, this will help other users ...

Regards,

Patrice

Happy to help you !