[lug] NFS on Debian Jessie

[david]

On 12/07/2016 08:11 AM, Gary Hodges - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> On 12/06/2016 04:56 PM, Gary Hodges - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>> I can mount a share by issuing the following commend:
>>
>> sudo mount -o nolock /mnt/mfrsr
>>
>> Without the "-o nolock" option I get the following error:
>>
>> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
>> mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.
>> mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified
>>
>> According to packages.debian.org/jessie/nfs-common statd is an included
>> program, but I can't google a way to successfully start statd.
>>
>> This machine is a very bare-bones, no X, install.  I'm running another
>> computer with Jessie and KDE and have no issue with NFS.  I see no
>> obvious differences with a "chkconfig --list" on both machines.
>>
>> nfs-common    0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  S:on
>> nfs-common    0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  S:on
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> Some follow-on info:
>
> user at machine:/var/lib/nfs$ locate statd
> /sbin/rpc.statd
> /usr/sbin/start-statd
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Init/gs_statd.ps
> /usr/share/man/man8/rpc.statd.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/statd.8.gz
> /var/cache/apt/archives/rstatd_4.0.1-8_amd64.deb
>
> So it seems what I need is installed.
>
> I've purged and reinstalled nfs-common and rpcbind a couple times.
>
> user at machine:/var/lib/nfs$ sudo systemctl enable nfs-common
> Synchronizing state for nfs-common.service with sysvinit using
> update-rc.d...
> Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
>
> Added the directory statd to /var/lib/nfs as I saw suggested
>
> Rinse.  Repeat.  Same result.



Try comparing the /etc/default/nfs-common files on the two hosts. The 
first variable in my file is "NEED_STATD=" which may be set on one of 
your systems and not the other. You can set it as well to force 
rpc.statd to fire up on boot.

dafr