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nfisher.sr

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 45

Trouble getting nfs up

I was having some issues getting nfs up and running. Running the nfs-server via systemctl kept dying, pointing towards missing /proc/fs/nfs directory. After some investigation here's where I'm at.

# modprobe nfs
# lsmod | grep nfs
# cat /proc/filesystems | grep nfs
# 

So apparently the nfs module is not loading?

I followed the wiki instructions to the T so far. Nothing in the troubleshooting page looks helpful, but I'm obviously missing something here.

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Trouble getting nfs up

Check dmesg. Upon successful loading of the nfs module, you would expect to see something like the following:

FS-Cache: Loaded
RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching

$ modinfo nfs
$ uname -a

may also shed some light on the situation.

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nfisher.sr

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 45

Re: Trouble getting nfs up

Relavent output of dmesg:

[121325.267468] nfs: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[121431.401339] systemd[1]: Unit proc-fs-nfsd.mount entered failed state.

Also -

thor% modinfo nfs
modinfo: ERROR: Module alias nfs not found.
thor% uname -a
Linux thor 3.13.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 1 12:27:17 CEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks...

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Trouble getting nfs up

Your kernel (at least) is way out of date - 3.13.8 was over 6 months ago. General advice for Arch is to keep it up to date, so do that, then try again.

nfisher.sr

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 45

Re: Trouble getting nfs up

Thanks, working now. As you probably guessed the system was neglected for quite a while (no internet connection). I had updated everything, or so I thought, but apparently forgot to reboot into the new kernel? DOH!