Hi, This is a problem I tried to solve for about 3 weeks without much progress.
My intended system setup has a dependency graph as follows... Sys-A <-+--: Sys-B <---: Sys-C | | +-----------------+ Where both Sys-C and Sys-B depends on Sys-A for an administrative directory containing the motd and hosts.* and Sys-B contains the home directory for both Sys-B and Sys-C. and Sys-C is a debian mirror. The reason for such an unusual setup involving Sys-A is that the uptime for Sys-B and Sys-C is dependent on the availability of the systems in my lab but Sys-A is consistently up. My problem is in the setting up of the nfs. Sys-B and Sys-C refuse to startup rpc.nfsd. they return the error: nfsd: could not make a UDP socket What is puzzling is that Sys-A's nfsd is up and running without any problem. I have tried copying the kernel to Sys-B and Sys-C to no avail. The intrigueing thing was that Sys-C actually worked twice.. both when I changed the kernel (when I copied Sys-A's kernel over and when I upgraded Sys-C to Debian 1.2). Unfortunately, it only lasted one reboot... afterwhich nothing else I tried worked. rpcinfo on Sys-(B|C) reports: No remote programs registered. Which is funny because `ps -xaef | grep rpc` returns: 712 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous=N T 715 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous=N 662 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous= But if rpcinfo is ran locally, they return: program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs 100005 1 udp 823 mountd 100005 1 tcp 825 mountd Sys-A and Sys-B are now on Debian 1.1, Sys-C is running Debian 1.2 I will upgrade Sys-B to Debian 1.2 when day breaks but am really reluctant to change anything on Sys-A, (unless Sys-B is willing to work). Things I have tried: 1) (Recompiling|borrowing|stealing) kernels from 2.0.(0|6|27) 2) Toyed with different setting of /etc/exports and /etc/fstab 3) Different settings of rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd and rpc.portmap 4) Reinstalling Debian 1.1 and Debian 1.2 Can anyone please give any suggestion? Thanks Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]