From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 18: 9:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f24.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 600D114CD1 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjwab@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 77864 invoked by uid 0); 1 Dec 1999 02:09:13 -0000 Message-ID: <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 24.108.41.118 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:09:12 PST X-Originating-IP: [24.108.41.118] From: "Michael Williams" To: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem Resolved: Re: NFS server problems Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:09:12 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Greg Lehey >Reply-To: Greg Lehey >To: Michael Williams , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, > Majid Almassari >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 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