rpc.umntall error on boot

Robert Simmons rsimmons0 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 03:07:58 UTC 2011


On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> What happens is that /etc/rc.d/nfsclient is executed before
> /etc/rc.d/mountd. It finds /var/db/mountdtab non-empty and tries to
> get a port from rpcbind for mountd. Since mountd isn't running yet,
> so it fails. Since telling the server on the same machine to clear
> out /var/db/mountdtab for the client is basically meaningless, failing
> shouldn't be a problem.

Would there be any drawbacks to moving /etc/rc.d/nfsclient to later in
the process so that mountd is already running?

Rob


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