NFS mount fails; RPC: Program not registered

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

Hi
After my last reboot one NFS filesystem will not mount:
/etc/fstab entry:
ccb4tap1:/home /ccb4tap1/home nfs rw,hard 0 0

fails with:
nfs mount: get_fh: ccb4tap1:: RPC: Program not registered
nfs mount: get_fh: ccb4tap1:: RPC: Program not registered
nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /ccb4tap1/home after 5 seconds
nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /ccb4tap1/home

Andreas

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

I think the filesystems in /etc/fstab are mounted before all the necessary NFS daemons are started. Are the nfs daemons now all running ? /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start
Then try a mount -a
Did it mount ? if not is the remote server pingable ? and does it have nfs server running ?

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Andreas,

Looks like ccb4tap1 isn't running the NFS daemons. Try "/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start" on that system, assuming it's HPUX.

Rgds, Robin

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

Hi Robin and Stefan
nfs.server start did the trick.

I had ruled out this possibility as the filesystem was already mounted on another server (although I hadn't tried to remount this after my problem occured),
and since my /etc/exports looked right; how could i know... (Now I know!)
Guess my nfs.server had got a litle hickup.

Thanks

Andreas

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

A small question guys;

How do you manage to reply on my message so quick?
Do you have some monitoring on the forum pages or are you just refreshing all the time?

Andreas

[Stefan Farrelly]

Just refreshing im afraid. I wish there was something faster/easier to pick up new questions !

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

Couldn't agree more!

So long