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danh337

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Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 18

SOLVED: I changed fam to gamin, and upgraded, and now my NFS is broken

Hi Archlinux gurus. Here is the main problem:

dan@danbook:~
$ sudo rpc.statd -Fd
rpc.statd: Version 1.2.2 starting
rpc.statd: Flags: No-Daemon Log-STDERR TI-RPC 
sm-notify: Version 1.2.2 starting
sm-notify: Already notifying clients; Exiting!
rpc.statd: Local NSM state number: 3
rpc.statd: Failed to unregister program 100024, version 1
rpc.statd: Running as root.  chown /var/lib/nfs to choose different user
rpc.statd: Failed to register (statd, 1, udp)
rpc.statd: Failed to register (statd, 1, tcp)
rpc.statd: Unrecognized bind address family: inet6
rpc.statd: Unrecognized bind address family: inet6
rpc.statd: failed to create RPC listeners, exiting

Google turned up one guy with the same problem on Paldo Linux, but no solutions.

Here's the background. I was cleaning out a bunch of old files on my fileserver, which I mount with NFS. Then I noticed my CPU pegged at 100%. It was famd. So I researched it and found that gamin might be better. I ran "pacman -S gamin" which uninstalled fam. Then I ran "pacman -Syu" since I saw some new updates. Here are the most recent updates that were applied:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1758760 Jul  1 12:51 imagemagick-6.6.2.0-22-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    486576 Jun 30 18:39 curl-7.21.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    147884 Jun 30 12:50 perl-xml-parser-2.36-6-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1950268 Jun 30 01:03 git-1.7.1.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    206736 Jun 30 00:24 udev-158-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2952308 Jun 29 08:03 ffmpeg-23619-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    687480 Jun 28 12:41 ttf-liberation-1.05.3.20100621-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    784436 Jun 27 07:02 firefox-3.6.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    540100 Jun 27 07:02 transmission-gtk-2.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14179048 Jun 27 07:02 xulrunner-1.9.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    209012 Jun 27 02:29 libpng-1.4.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    102436 Jun 26 21:07 sudo-1.7.2p7-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    107648 Jun 26 10:25 libva-0.31.0_p13-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     28980 Jun 26 10:25 vdpau-video-0.6.9-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    184340 Jun 26 08:18 m4-1.4.14-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7442376 Jun 25 04:54 smbclient-3.5.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4483884 Jun 25 03:00 man-pages-3.25-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7339796 Jun 25 02:25 glibc-2.12-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9077856 Jun 24 18:33 thunderbird-3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    617138 Jun 24 13:36 pacman-3.4.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    138604 Jun 24 06:17 udisks-1.0.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz

So nfs-utils, which contains rpc.statd, was not touched. The only one I sortof suspect is udev. But I'm really stuck. I've reinstalled nfs-utils. And I have restarted NFS on the server side.

Thanks for any guidance.
-Dan

Last edited by danh337 (2010-07-05 10:11:10)

Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: SOLVED: I changed fam to gamin, and upgraded, and now my NFS is broken

it could be that NFS isnt able to work properly with gamin, at least the binaries compiled for archlinux. try reinstalling fam, and then see if nfs still works. if it works, it could be that an error with the gamin package. try compiling gamin and/or nfs from source to see if it works then.

demian

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From: Frankfurt, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 709

Re: SOLVED: I changed fam to gamin, and upgraded, and now my NFS is broken

i use gamin and nfs both in the newest versions and they work fine. Did you try NFS4?

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falconindy

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Re: SOLVED: I changed fam to gamin, and upgraded, and now my NFS is broken

I think you've incorrectly diagnosed the problem as being related to your switch from fam to gamin. The errors from starting rpc are fairly informative.

Who owns /var/lib/nfs?
There's also some funny business with ipv6 going on...

Last edited by falconindy (2010-07-04 17:29:25)

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danh337

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Registered: 2010-07-04

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Re: SOLVED: I changed fam to gamin, and upgraded, and now my NFS is broken

Thanks all for your responses. This was a weird issue but is now resolved. I use autofs for my mounts, and I never had to start "nfs-common" before. Now I do. I shouldn't really call it "solved", since I don't know exactly what broke it (unless fam also started dependencies for rpc.statd <shrug>).
FWIW, it appears that starting nfs-common simply starts rpcbind before rpc.statd, and it's happy. The rpc.statd error message could've been a bit more helpful on that one. But my NFS is working again, so, cheers.
And BTW, Arch is the best Linux I've ever used, going all the way back to 1996.

Last edited by danh337 (2010-07-05 10:12:22)