Re: rpc.mount problems on 4.3.3

From: Bela Gazdy (bela_at_bluedog.cc.emory.edu)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: 29 Sep 2003 10:27:50 GMT

L <skilz-d-man-u-nv@msn.com> wrote:
L> Thanks for your quick response Dan. I tried what you said but it still is
L> not working.
L> "Dan Foster" <dsf@globalcrossing.net> wrote in message
L> news:slrnbn9t8l.cbf.dsf@gaia.roc2.gblx.net...
>> In article <1m6db.17494$ai7.1194@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>, L
L> <skilz-d-man-u-nv@msn.com> wrote:
>> > I cannot get the rpc.mountd to stay up it will start but then
L> immediately
>> > dies. Everything else for nfs comes up fine except rpc.mountd, when I
L> tyr
>> > to do a showmount command I get:
>> > RPC: 1832-019 Program not registered
>> > I can't find specific info on this error. Can someone please help me...
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> 1. uncomment portmap in /etc/rc.tcpip
>> 2. make sure rc.nfs is not commented out in /etc/inittab
>> 3. # stopsrc -g nfs
>> 4. # startsrc -s portmap
>> 5. # /etc/rc.nfs
>>
>> That should take care of it for that boot and for subsequent boots, so
L> only
>> needs to be done that way once.
>>
>> -Dan

I've seen such behavior when the file /etc/netsvc.conf was missing.
If you use DNS, make sure that file has the following line:

hosts=local,bind4

and the first non-commented out line in /etc/hosts is:

127.0.0.1 loopback localhost 

-- 
Bela Gazdy, EUCLID/AIX Systems Support