Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:09:12 MST From: "Michael Williams" <mjwab@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem Resolved: Re: NFS server problems Message-ID: <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> >Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: Michael Williams <mjwab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, > Majid Almassari <majid@ibroadcast.net> >Subject: Re: NFS server problems >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:37:14 -0500 > >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. > >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 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. thanks ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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