NFS HP-UX 11.00

[Helder G Guerreiro]

Installed from scratch HP-UX 11.00.

Now the NFS server refuses to start. biod starts ok.

Any ideas?

[Patrick Wallek]

check /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and make sure that the NFS_SERVER is set to 1 to make it start.

[Alan Riggs]

Is portmapper running? What does rpcinfo -t `hostname` show?

How are you trying to stsart the server process? Are any error messages being generated?

[Helder G Guerreiro]

I've used several ways:

* SAM - No error messages
* /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start

starting NFS SERVER networking

starting up the rpcbind daemon
rpcbind already started, using pid: 1907
Reading in /etc/exports
starting up the mount daemon
rpc.mountd already started, using pid: 1934
starting up the NFS daemons
/usr/sbin/nfsd 4
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
rpc.statd already started, using pid: 736
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
rpc.lockd already started, using pid: 742
starting up the PC-NFS daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd

And finnaly out of desesperation I've tried simply to start nfsd:

nfsd 4

To no avail. I've also the entries in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf set correctly...

Thank you, anyway for your help.

[Blanche]

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem.
You can see an extract from the file
"/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log" as attachement.

I've already tried to use tcp transport connection by using the command :
setoncenv NFS_TCP 1
but the results are similar


Hope it helps you to help us.
Thanks

Jerome

[Blanche]

Here is an question/answer message I found
in the Technical Knowledge base .



Problem Description

I am attempting to export /usr/local, but I discovered
that the nfsd was not running on the remote machine.

When I executed a /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
command, I was unable to start any of the associated
NFS processes.

What can I do to correct this problem?

Configuration Info

Operating System - HP-UX
Version - 11.0
Hardware System - HP 9000
Series - K360

Solution

We recommend that you use the following procedure
to resolve this issue:

1. Remove all nsswitch* files from the /etc directory.

2. Create a new nsswitch.conf file by copying the
example file from /usr/newconfig/etc/nsswitch.xxxxxxx.

3. Ensure that the line for services looks at local files
(services: files).

4. Stop/start both the nfs server and client.


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This solution is very efficient.
I tested it with succes.