Start NFS client subsystem failed

[Kim Tran_4]

I reboot my system and get the error: "Start NFS client subsystem failed". Looking at /etc/rc.log, I get:

Start NFS client subsystem
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start":
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starting NFS CLIENT networking

starting up the rpcbind
rpcbind already started, using pid: 604
starting up the BIO daemons
/usr/sbin/biod 16
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
starting up the Automount daemon
/usr/sbin/automount -f /etc/auto_master
FAILURE CODE: 1
mounting remote NFS file systems ...
"/sbin/rc2.d/S430nfs.client start" FAILED

Please help. Thanks

[TwoProc]

Do you need/use Automount?
I don't know what the problem with it is - but if you're not using it - change the line in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf that says AUTOMOUNT=1 to AUTOMOUNT=0. Then reboot.

[Kim Tran_4]

Thanks. But I think I need automount.

[TwoProc]

Run the automount command by hand and see what the error is.
/usr/sbin/automount -f /etc/auto_master

[Mark Ellzey]

Kim,

Check that the servers listed in your auto_master and other auto_ files are up and have exported their directories for NFS use. Although that shouldn't be a problem with automount, it doesn't hurt to check.

You can also use the -T (trace) option when running automount. This will expand all NFS calls and save them to /var/adm/automount.log.

Regards,
Mark