On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ > [snip] > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old > > That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later > removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this seems > really wrong. > > I would suggest a clean cut by running `rm -fr /var/lib/init.d/` > and doing a reboot. Services won't be stopped, but your filesystems will > be remouted ro, so they should be fine. I've tested this on my box and > didn't have any problems.
Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability to start nfs automatically, or by hand. I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log: Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as rpc.statdcould not start Does that shed any light? John
