rpcd daemon not starting

[Boyd Kodama]

HPUX 10.20, HP 712/80:

Refering to posting at http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x6fa4854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9!1,00.html,
I also am having trouble with the rpcd daemon not
starting. I installed an image of a system on a HP 755 onto a HP 712/80 via Ignite-UX boot recovery tape. I
have the /opt/dcelocal/var/dced directory which has the
dced.log and objectuuid.txt files.
I noticed that the Ep.db and Llb.db files are removed
when `/sbin/rc2.d/S590ncs start` is executed at bootup.

The only error message is the following:

EXIT CODE: 1
starting the DCE RPC Daemon
/opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
"/sbin/rc2.d/S590ncs start" FAILED

I did not have this problem when installing the HP
755 image onto a HP C110.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Boyd

[Wilfred Chau_1]

Check your /var/opt/dce/dced/objectuuid.txt file. It is probably corrupted.

Use this command to recreate that file.
# cd /var/opt/dce/dced

# mv objectuuid.txt objectuuid.txt.bak

# uuidgen > objectuuid.txt

make sure the premission is 644.

have fun!

[Boyd Kodama]

I tried the following:

# cd /var/opt/dce/dced
# mv objectuuid.txt objectuuid.txt.bak
# uuidgen > objectuuid.txt
(permission was 644)

But, rpcd still would not start.

[Stew McLeod]

Redo for this file,
/opt/dcelocal/var/dced/objectuuid.txt

[Alex Glennie]

sounds like you need to find out why rpcd is failing : have you checked in / var/adm/syslog/syslog.log , /etc/rc.log and in /var/opt/dce/svc log files for clues further errors ?

[Wilfred Chau_1]

I thought you are running 11.0

do this then,
# cd /opt/dcelocal/var/dced
# mv objectuuid.txt objectuuid.txt.bak
# uuidgen > objectuuid.txt

just curious, is there a objectuuid.txt in /var/opt/dce/dced ?

[Boyd Kodama]

On my system I have a link as follows:

/opt/dcelocal/var/ -> /var/opt/dce

So, doing it to /opt/dcelocal/var/dced/objectuuid.txt is
the same as doing it to /var/opt/dce/dced/objectuuid.txt.

But, in anycase, I was just told not to worry about it
since the system may end up being used as a stand-
alone system. Thus, there's no need for the rpcd
daemon.

thanks

Boyd

[Jim Welch]

There should be something in the /var/opt/dce/svc/*.log files that could help pinpoint why rpcd won't start. (usually in the error.log or fatal.log files)