Tuesday, June 06

Rant

NFS Is A Cow

We hates it!

Okay, the problem(s) this time:

If portsentry is running, you cannot start NFS. Solution: Stop portsentry, start portmap and nfsd, restart portsentry.

If sunrpc is not available as a kernel module, rpc.idmapd will not start. Without rpc.idmapd, you can't use NFSv4. Solution: Don't use NFSv4.

Everything is set up correctly, your mount requests are being accepted according to the syslog, and yet the client always sees "Permission denied". Solution: Add the line

none /proc/fs/nfs nfsd noauto,defaults 0 0
to /etc/fstab and mount /proc/fs/nfs You can take the noauto off once you're happy that everything works.

This, of course, is all explained in great detail in the man pages... err, the online howto's... err, in the kernel mailing list.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:06 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 http://wonderduck.mu.nu/archives/179920.php Thanks for your work over the weekend, Pixy!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, June 06 2006 01:56 AM (+FLIL)

2 <i>Useful</i> documentation for open source software? You expected <i>useful</i> documentation? Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh... sob, moan, cry. My server runs Linux, and if anything unexpected ever happens to it, I am deeply screwed. I've tried to figure it out, and I eventually gave up. (I can't even figure out how to use many of the basic features of ".htaccess" from the documentation; last time I tried to do something new, it shut my entire web site down until I backed out the change.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, June 06 2006 02:23 AM (+rSRq)

3 Yes, I expect useful documentation for open-source software.  The documentation for Python, for example, is quite good.  Not perfect, not the best I've seen, but more than adequate.

The documentation for Apache, on the other hand, is complete and utter crap.



Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 06 2006 03:25 AM (FRalS)

4 Lately I've decided the best help is provided by Google.  I can solve 95% of my technical issues fastest that way, if I can get the phrasing right.   Now, if only Ace would spell my name the same every time.  Then I could find all the stuff I sent him that he linked.

Posted by: TallDave at Thursday, June 08 2006 04:54 PM (iQC1I)

5 Re: Comment #5, got one of them, too, yesterday.

Posted by: Old Grouch at Saturday, June 09 2007 02:52 AM (f4kkX)

6 Yeah, they're popping up all around mee.nu now.  Coming from all different IP addresses too.  I can design a spam-filter rule to exclude them, I think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 09 2007 08:45 AM (PiXy!)

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