On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:25:55PM -0400, Ian Blenke wrote:
> Andrew M Hoerter wrote:
> >On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I've got a machine I'm converting over from RH6.2 to Debian 3.0r1. I've
> >>set this machine to export three directories via NFS, like this (in the
> >>/etc/exports file):
> >>
> >>/mnt/lists *(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
>
> Try the following:
>
> client$ rpcinfo -p server
>
> Do you see mountd? if not, RPC is being blocked (or portmap isn't
> running). Make sure portmap is running on the server, and that the
> connection isn't being rejected by /etc/hosts.deny (try putting "ALL:
> ALL" in /etc/hosts.allow), and that the UDP packets aren't being blocked
> by a firewalling ruleset (port 111, 2048, etc)
>
> If you see mountd, try the following:
>
> client$ showmount -e server
>
> Do you see the exported filesystems? If not, fix any typos in
> /etc/exports, restart your nfs services, and try again.
>
> /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
>
> Is everyone in the list? If not, what about the client? If showmount
> doesn't show an appropriately exported filesystem, fix your /etc/exports
> file and bounce your mountd:
>
> $ exportfs -a
>
> Let us know where things stop working... then we can debug further.
This was good advice, but the problem was a bit more bizarre. I was
building a new Debian 3.0r1 machine, and had selected the
kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc package for installation. The machine never
told me it _didn't_ install this package, but I figured out I was
running a 2.2.20 kernel, which I'm guessing didn't want to work well
with the nfs-kernel-server. Turns out that, although the kernel-image
package was listed, it did not exist on the ftp server. So I installed
the kernel-image-2.4.20-3-586tsc package instead, and actually watched
it install. After a reboot, the nfs kernel server was fine.
Paul
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