NFS headaches with FreeBSD 4.9
- by Ernie
Once upon a time, this used to work, and I kept the configuration the same, but... now nothing.
I'm just trying to get an NFS server set up on a FreeBSD 4.9 server. The process should be about as complicated as this:
Add this entry to /etc/exports:
/var/home /var/vpopmail/domains -maproot=root XXX.XX.XX.XXX
Execute this:
portmap
nfsd -u -t -n 4
mountd -r
Then this should work, regardless of network and firewall issues:
showmount -e localhost
But showmount -e localhost fails with the following error:
RPC: Port mapper failure
showmount: can't do exports rpc
And even if I kill off the NFS daemon, and try a rpcinfo -p localhost, I get this error:
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: rpcinfo: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer
The portmapper is still running. Why the heck does nothing work as if it isn't?
Edit to add:
FYI: Sockstat gives me this:
$ sockstat |egrep "(nfsd|portmap)"
root nfsd 86310 3 udp4 *:2049 *:*
root nfsd 86310 4 udp4 *:973 *:*
root portmap 45920 0 tcp4 *:111 *:*
Then, at a later time (say, 5 minutes) it's as if nfsd isn't acting as a server:
$ sockstat |egrep "(nfsd|portmap)"
root portmap 45920 0 tcp4 *:111 *:*
But the nfs daemon is still running:
$ ps ax |grep nfsd
86311 ?? I 0:00.00 nfsd: server (nfsd)
86312 ?? I 0:00.00 nfsd: server (nfsd)
86313 ?? I 0:00.00 nfsd: server (nfsd)
86314 ?? I 0:00.00 nfsd: server (nfsd)
