Re: Cannot get mountd to start

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I just updated my main server from 6.99.5 to 6.99.10, and now I have a little 
> problem: mountd isn't working.
>
> The new kernel includes INET6 while the old kernel did not.  With both the 
> old and new kernel, I have the upd6 and tcp6 entries commented out in 
> /etc/netconfig
>
> I have not started to set up my inet6 network, and my network interfaces have 
> only fe80::...
>
> During startup, mountd appears to start, and rpcinfo shows that it is 
> registered.  However, mount requests from other machines fail with a "program 
> not registered" message.
>
> Any attempt on the server to restart mountd just hangs while trying to stop 
> the old copy.  And after a few minutes, the entire system hangs and needs to 
> be reset.
>
> Anyone got a clue on how to debug this?

Problem solved!  :)

It wasn't a problem with mountd, it was nfsd.  Turns out that we have

        nfs_server_flags="-6tun 4"

in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

I changed that to

        nfs_server_flags="-tun 4"

(removed the '6') and it works just fine now.


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