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Re: rpc.statd fails on diskless Debian 3.0 install

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From: Peter T. Breuer
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:10
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In comp.os.linux.help Oliver Hookins <ohook000@nospam.student.mq.edu.au> wrote:
> In any case here is the output from ps which (I believe) shows portmap 
> is running:

That's irrelevant at this stage. We need rpcinfo output.

>    PID  Uid     Stat Command
>      1 root     S    [swapper]
>      2 root     S    [kflushd]
>      3 root     S    [kupdate]
>      4 root     S    [kswapd]
>      5 root     S    [keventd]
>      6 root     S    init
>     49 root     S    /sbin/syslogd -m 0
>     55 root     S    /usr/bin/tail -f /proc/kmsg
>     56 root     S    /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
>     57 root     S    -sh
>     58 root     S    /sbin/dbootstrap
>     65 root     S    [rpciod]
>     91 daemon   S    sbin/portmap
>     95 root     R    ps

> information to provide. Thanks for being patient. Here is the output 
> from 'rpcinfo -p', which obviously shows something is wrong:

> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No buffer 
> space available

Well, please be very specific - it is "rpcinfo -p localhost".  Try it
from a remote machine too.

So you''ll have to run portmap with debugging on and see what it
complains of.  Oh ..  no debugging switches.  Well, strace it then, and
look for stuff in logs. It must be doing something. FIrst indication is
that your networking is funny, or else the binary is nuts. You did
say that hosts.deny was clean?


Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
Subject: Re: rpc.statd fails on diskless Debian 3.0 install
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