Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:53:58 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Michael Williams <mjwab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem Resolved: Re: NFS server problems Message-ID: <19991201205358.15366@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Michael Williams on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:09:12PM -0700 References: <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 30 November 1999 at 19:09:12 -0700, Michael Williams wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:37:14 -0500, Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> wrote: >> >> On Sunday, 28 November 1999 at 21:20:47 -0700, Michael Williams wrote: >>> I have just installed FreeBSD 3.3 and am having a problem with the NFS >>> server. When my machine boots I get the following messages: >>> >>> ... >>> Doing additional network setup: portmap. >>> Starting final network daemons: >>> mountd Nov 28 21:04:07 master >>> mountd[127] can't register mount >>> nfsd Nov 28 21:04:07 master >>> nfsd:[130]: can't register with udp portmap >>> rpc.statd Cannot register service: >>> RPC: Unable to send; errno = No route to host >>> rpc.statd: unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp) >>> ... >>> >>> Consequently the NFS server does not work. >>> >>> Any ideas as to what the problem may be? Is there more information >>> that I need to provide. >> >> There was a problem with FreeBSD 3.3 only where the loopback interface >> didn't get initialized. This looks like the problem. Check that you >> get this: >> >> $ ifconfig lo0 >> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 >> >> If the address isn't set, do: >> >> # ifconfig lo0 127.1 >> >> After that, restart the NFS daemons, and things should work. To make >> it permanent, make sure that you have something like this in your >> /etc/rc.conf: >> >> network_interfaces="ed0 lo0" >> >> It's important that lo0 appears here; depending on your hardware, ed0 >> may be something else, or there may be multiple additional interfaces. > > This solution worked. Thanks a lot. > > Is there a location where this and other installation problems are > documented. I would rather not bother anyone in the future if there is a > document that I can read instead. This one was in the ERRATA file on the ftp site. I'm offline now, so I can't point to the URL, but you should find it via http://www.FreeBSD.org. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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