rpcd will not start

[Oliver Schmitz]

Good afternoon all together: I installed HP-UX 11.i TCOE on a Visualize C3600 maschine. I used the advanced mode to adapt the fs etc. but leaved all settings for the software on default. Unfortunately the rpc can not be started. I looked to the corresponding scripts but could not find any hints why it can not be started. Do anybody have a hint for me?

[Pete Randall]

Oliver,

Have a look at /etc/rc.log. Find the relevant section:

Start NFS core subsystem
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S400nfs.core start":
----------------------------
starting NFS CORE networking

starting up the rpcbind
/usr/sbin/rpcbind
starting up the nfskd daemon
/usr/sbin/nfskd



See what there are for error messages there.


Pete

[Oliver Schmitz]

Pete,

for NFS there is this entry in rc.log:

Start NFS core subsystem
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S400nfs.core start":
----------------------------
starting NFS CORE networking

starting up the rpcbind
/usr/sbin/rpcbind
starting up the nfskd daemon
/usr/sbin/nfskd

The point were the FAILED message at boot up is printed is somewhat later:

Start RPC daemon if needed
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S590Rpcd start":
----------------------------
starting the DCE RPC Daemon
/opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
EXIT CODE: 1
"/sbin/rc2.d/S590Rpcd start" FAILED


Is this error known?

Thanks and best regards,

Oliver

[Pete Randall]

Oliver,

That doesn't give us much to go on, does it? I've looked at the start script but can't see anything obvious. Hopefully someone else will have some experience with this.

Good luck,
Pete

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
try starting it manually with


sh -x /sbin/init.d/rpcd start


this will print each line, and you can trace the error back to the very beginning.

Is your lan card O.K. ? May be is faulty and having some trouble.

Are there any other network errors ?

And: did you try another boot ? Once my workstation didn't start properly for a problem in the ifconfig part of the networking, a reboot fixed it.

Massimo

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

see http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9a954a988422d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

drop me an email if need be ..

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear Massimo,

I did what you said and try to start it by hand. I found it running up to the start of the /sbin/init.d/S590Rpcd script. Therefore i started this with sh -x in front and saw the EXIT CODE 1 as above after executing ((?)/s.b.) the /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd script.Therefore I started this with sh -x /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd start. This is the result:

bash-2.04# pwd
/opt/dce/sbin
bash-2.04# sh -x ./rpcd start
sh: ./rpcd: Execute permission denied.

The permissions are:

bash-2.04# ls -l rpcd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 6 Jun 6 09:09 rpcd -> ./dced
bash-2.04# ls -l dced
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 338456 Nov 14 2000 dced

Do you see a mistake? It is really not clear to me anymore.

Thank you,

Oliver

[Pete Randall]

Oliver,

Check Alex's link. I think he's got your solution.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Here are the latest DCE patches I was able to find:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHSS_28386&context=hpux:800:11:11
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHSS_28387&context=hpux:800:11:11
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHSS_28388&context=hpux:800:11:11


Pete

[Oliver Schmitz]

Thanks a lot to all,

Alex`s link is finally the solution! I see the same behaviour.
Is the corresponding patch out now (I will immidiately search for it in the patch area!)?

Nice wekend to everybody,

Oliver

[Alex Glennie]

Symptoms:
PHSS_28387:
1. JAGad82749/JAGae29167 : when multiple client
requests are canceled before completion, memory
leak occurs in the rpcd/dced process.

2. JAGae41968/JAGae56569 : The dce daemon (dced/rpcd)
does not start up when the file system's block size is
set to 64K.

[Oliver Schmitz]

I am still searching the best way to get the patch which will correct this rpcd error. Is the patch bundle (BUNDLE11i - Required kernel header file patch bundle for all HP-UX 11i v1 workstations and servers. Available version: June 2003 (B.11.11.0306.1) approppiate?

Oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

It is again me,

I saw that I was too fast.
Thank you for the description of the symptoms. I will download this patch.

Best regards,

Oliver