pfsd.rpc problem

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

I'm trying to mount an oracle CD and am having problems.
I've done it 100 times before but it's not working now.

For some reason, after starting pfs_mountd and pfsd, the pfsd.rpc is not running.

Any ideas?

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

OK,

I've done a more extensive search on the forums and foudn that rpc.statd and rpc.lockd had to be running.

I staretd them and then restarted my pfs daemons and now pfsd.rpc isrunning but the pfs_mount /cdrom command is still hanging.

What now?

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,
Have a look at this site
https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/
at the bottom it says

Do not use pfs_mount!. Install the Rock-Ridge extension patches instead and never worry about these problems

Install those patches and you'll never have to worry about pfs_mount

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

Thanks but I don't have the opportunity to install patches on this machine right now.

I have used the pfs mounting on this machine many times in the past and have never had a problem until today.

[Timmy Vazquez_2]

Did you ever get a resolution to this? I am having the same problem.

[Fred Ruffet]

How did you start rpc daemons ?
/sbin/init.d/Rpcd should be used.
I would also start nfs services.

Regarding rock ridge extensions, I'm actually working on a machine with a good level of patch, and still have problems. Not particularly with Oracle, but some mount commands results at filenames in caps and ".1" at end. PFS whith xlat=unix always work (if you don't have automount...).

Regards,

Fred