"rpc.mountd" problem

[Ramesh.K.R.]

Hi,
We are using HPUX-11.0 on L-class m/c. The NFS server service "rpc.mountd" gets killed whenever a client system tries to access the system. At this time any NFS related command will give the following error:
"RPC: Program not registered"
Can anyone give some clues as to why this is happening. The strange thingis, this m/c was working fine for almost 2 years.

Thanks & Regards,
Ramesh.K.R.
HP-ISO
Bangalore

[Helen French]

Are all the daemons are started in NFS server and client? Try restarting the daemons from a clean state (on both client and server systems):

# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop/start
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop/start

Check the nfsconf file in /etc/rc.config.d too.

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
by chance you recently installed a new MCSG version ?


I knew there are some problems with the latest release.

You may need the latest patches of MCSG ... and check your NFS patches too!

HTH,
Massimo

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

Did you check the NFS configuration /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

NFS_CLIENT=1
NFS_SERVER=1
NUM_NFSD=4
NUM_NFSIOD=4
PCNFS_SERVER=0

Then
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
# /sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

Fr??d??ric

[Ramesh.K.R.]

Hi,

Sorry to have bothered you....
The culprit was "/etc/nsswitch.conf". We had recently put unwanted entries there. Now it is a very simple file with "hosts :dns" & he is fine.............

Ramesh.K.R.