Frustration: the only thing mounting with NFS client :-)

[lost gweilo]

Hi there,

I am trying to access an NFS server (Debian Linux,
host name "lg") from my FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE system
(host name "gw") on my LAN.

My basic system info:
  gw# uname -mnprs
  FreeBSD gw 4.10-STABLE i386 i386

It doesn't seem to work:
  gw# mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu
  lg:/mnt/tt/music: NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Timed out
  ^C

It works when I try on the server though...
(Hopefully this also shows that basic networking
is OK between the two boxes...)
  gw# ssh lg
  Password:
  root at lostgweilo:~# pwd
  pwd
  /root
  root at lostgweilo:~# mkdir uu
  mkdir uu
  root at lostgweilo:~# mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu
  mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu
  lg:/mnt/tt/music on /root/uu type nfs (rw,addr=127.0.0.1)
  root at lostgweilo:~# exit
  exit
  logout
  Connection to lg closed.

RPC calls seem OK either with TCP or UDP:
  gw# rpcinfo -u lg nfs
  program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
  program 100003 version 3 ready and waiting
  gw# rpcinfo -t lg nfs
  program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
  program 100003 version 3 ready and waiting

I read in "Managing NFS and NIS" by Hal Stern, in
Chapter 10 p. 231 that that "rpcinfo -u" is supposed
to call the null procedure of the RPC server...
The error message I get from mount seems related...
But I have no clue, it just does the same thing
all the time:
  gw# mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu
  lg:/mnt/tt/music: NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Timed out
  ^C

I also noticed that "portmap" doesn't run on my client.
It won't start. Is it needed, for an NFS client?
  gw# portmap -d
  portmap[36419]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use
  gw# tail /var/log/messages
  Sep 17 05:00:00 gw newsyslog[90252]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
  Sep 17 16:50:41 gw dhclient: New Network Number: 192.168.1.0
  Sep 17 16:50:41 gw dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 192.168.1.255
  Sep 17 23:14:55 gw portmap[9379]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use
  Sep 17 23:15:12 gw portmap[9472]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use
  Sep 18 00:23:26 gw portmap[36419]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use

Naive attempt to investigate the portmap error message:
  gw# netstat -a -f inet
  Active Internet connections (including servers)
  Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
  tcp4       0      0  192.168.1.100.4294     lg.ssh                 
ESTABLISHED
  tcp4       0      0  *.smtp                 *.*                    LISTEN
  tcp4       0      0  *.ssh                  *.*                    LISTEN
  tcp4       0      0  *.telnet               *.*                    LISTEN
  tcp4       0      0  *.sunrpc               *.*                    LISTEN
  udp4       0      0  *.*                    *.*
  udp4       0      0  *.sunrpc               *.*
  udp4       0      0  *.syslog               *.*
  udp4       0      0  *.bootpc               *.*

Basically I have no clue what is going on.
I hope you can suggest things to look at.

Regards.
Lostgweilo

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