NFS service not responding

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

Please assist, I configure NFS, start the nfs server is find but wuring start the nfs client giving me error message as below :
#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start
starting NFS CLIENT networking

starting up the rpcbind
rpcbind already started, using pid: 1448
starting up the BIO daemons
/usr/sbin/biod 4
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
mounting remote NFS file systems ...
nfs mount: getaddr_nfs: cel052: NFS service not responding(retry delay=5s)
nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /u18-cel52 after 5 seconds
nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /u18-cel52
nfs mount: getaddr_nfs: cel052: NFS service not responding(retry delay=5s)
nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /BKUPCRMS1 after 5 seconds
nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /BKUPCRMS1
nfs mount: getaddr_nfs: cel052: NFS service not responding(retry delay=5s)
nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /BKUPCRMS after 5 seconds
nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /BKUPCRMS
FAILURE CODE: 1
Mount failed! Possible local filesystem mount.
If local filesystem, then nfs.server will mount it.

Please help and TQVM

[Pete Randall]

Is host name resolution functioning properly? Forward and backward? By IP and by hostname?

What is "TQVM"?


Pete

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

I don't config neither DNS nor NIs.
refer to nsswitch.con file as below and I can ping my NFS server :

#cat nsswitch.conf
#
# /etc/nsswitch.files:
#
# An example file that could be copied over to /etc/nsswitch.conf; it
# does not use any name services.
#
passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files
services: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
publickey: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
cel053:/etc#ping cel052
PING cel052: 64 byte packets
64 bytes from 10.1.64.70: icmp_seq=0. time=1. ms
64 bytes from 10.1.64.70: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms

----cel052 PING Statistics----
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/0/1

[Pete Randall]

Well that simplifies things! Has cel052 exported the filesystems in question?

What is "TQVM"?


Pete

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

Done, refer below output :

# cat /etc/xtab
/BKUPCRMS
/BKUPCRMS1
/u18
# hostname
cel052
# exportfs
/BKUPCRMS
/BKUPCRMS1
/u18

And "TQVM" is shot form for "Thank You Very Much" to express appreciation for anybody that willing to help me.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

problems with NFS can also occure if speed of lancard and switch are not equal.
Have you set lanspeed hard or auto_on?

Volkmar

[Pete Randall]

The normal location for exported file systems would be in /etc/exports, not /etc/xtab (which exportfs maintains). Try running showmount on the exporting host.


Pete

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

showmount output (cel053 = NFS client) :

cel053:/etc#showmount
showmount: cel053: RPC: Program not registered

Also in client I issue the following command :

cel053:/etc#/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u cel052 mountd
program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting
rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3
program 100005 version 2 is not available
program 100005 version 3 ready and waiting
cel053:/etc#

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

also in clients, I issues the following command :

/usr/bin/rpcinfo -p cel052

and check the output that contain NO nfs daemon as below :

program vers proto port service
100000 4 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 3 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 4 udp 111 rpcbind
100000 3 udp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind
100068 2 udp 49159 cmsd
100068 3 udp 49159 cmsd
100068 4 udp 49159 cmsd
100068 5 udp 49159 cmsd
100083 1 tcp 49152 ttdbserver
536870913 1 udp 757
536870913 1 tcp 758
100005 1 udp 64324 mountd
100005 3 udp 64324 mountd
100005 1 tcp 62115 mountd
100005 3 tcp 62115 mountd
100024 1 tcp 62116 status
100024 1 udp 64325 status
100021 1 tcp 62117 nlockmgr
100021 1 udp 64326 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 62118 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 64327 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 62119 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 64328 nlockmgr
100020 1 udp 4045 llockmgr
100020 1 tcp 4045 llockmgr