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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:32:08 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mountd fails intermittently
Message-ID:  <200512140832.jBE8W8sZ061841@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <y9lpso0ojv3.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

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Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
 > I'm running 5.4-STABLE (about two weeks old), and have just set up an
 > NFS server for the first time.  Remote mounts sometimes work fine, and
 > sometimes fail.
 > 
 > The symptoms are that "showmount -e" sez 
 > 
 > showmount: can't do exports rpc
 > 
 > and that "rpcinfo -u <host> mountd" often works fine n times in a row,
 > and then stops working, like so:
 > 
 > ...
 > Michael-Sperbers-Computer[105] rpcinfo -u matt mountd
 > program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting
 > rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3
 > program 100005 version 2 is not available
 > program 100005 version 3 ready and waiting
 > Michael-Sperbers-Computer[106] rpcinfo -u matt mountd
 > program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting
 > rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3
 > program 100005 version 2 is not available
 > program 100005 version 3 ready and waiting
 > Michael-Sperbers-Computer[107] rpcinfo -u matt mountd
 > program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting
 > rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3
 > program 100005 version 2 is not available
 > program 100005 version 3 ready and waiting
 > Michael-Sperbers-Computer[108] rpcinfo -u matt mountd
 > program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting
 > rpcinfo: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version = 1, high version = 3
 > program 100005 version 2 is not available
 > program 100005 version 3 ready and waiting
 > Michael-Sperbers-Computer[109] rpcinfo -u matt mountd
 > rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
 > program 100005 version 0 is not available
 > 
 > From then on, it'll keep failing.

That looks like your rpcbind(8) process died.  Can you
check that with ps?  Also, are there any warnings or
errors reported in /var/log/messages?

Best regards
   Oliver

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