Failed starting rpc.mountd

[Anthony J Placilla]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:44 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> When I boot my machine, I often get something like the following :
> 
> Starting NFS mountd:                                       [  Failed  ]
> 
> immediately after the booting process finish, I can issue "service nfs 
> restart" as root and then NFS starts correctly. Any idea what might cause 
> this ? 
> 
> Here is from my /var/log/messages during boot:
> 
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant exportfs[2520]: /etc/exports [1]: No 'sync' or 'async' 
> option specified for export "192.168.0.100/255.255.255.0:/home/multimedia".   
> Assuming default behaviour ('sync').   NOTE: this default has changed from 
> previous versions
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 
> okir at monad.swb.de).
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev nfsd, type nfsd), 
> uses genfs_contexts
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant portmap[2546]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(mountd): 
> request from unprivileged port
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant rpc.mountd: unable to register (mountd, 3, tcp).
> Jul 26 09:07:28 defiant rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '' failed: errno 2 (No 
> such file or directory)
> 
> And /etc/exports:
> /home/multimedia	192.168.0.100/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> RDB
> 

Is portmapper running?

What's the output of
rpcinfo -p



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