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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:53:58 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        Michael Williams <mjwab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem Resolved: Re: NFS server problems
Message-ID:  <19991201205358.15366@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Michael Williams on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 07:09:12PM -0700
References:  <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Tuesday, 30 November 1999 at 19:09:12 -0700, Michael Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:37:14 -0500, Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, 28 November 1999 at 21:20:47 -0700, Michael Williams wrote:
>>> I have just installed FreeBSD 3.3 and am having a problem with the NFS
>>> server. When my machine boots I get the following messages:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Doing additional network setup: portmap.
>>> Starting final network daemons:
>>> mountd Nov 28 21:04:07 master
>>> mountd[127] can't register mount
>>> nfsd Nov 28 21:04:07 master
>>> nfsd:[130]: can't register with udp portmap
>>> rpc.statd Cannot register service:
>>> RPC: Unable to send; errno = No route to host
>>> rpc.statd: unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp)
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Consequently the NFS server does not work.
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to what the problem may be? Is there more information
>>> that I need to provide.
>>
>> There was a problem with FreeBSD 3.3 only where the loopback interface
>> didn't get initialized.  This looks like the problem.  Check that you
>> get this:
>>
>>   $ ifconfig lo0
>>   lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>
>> If the address isn't set, do:
>>
>>   # ifconfig lo0 127.1
>>
>> After that, restart the NFS daemons, and things should work.  To make
>> it permanent, make sure that you have something like this in your
>> /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>   network_interfaces="ed0 lo0"
>>
>> It's important that lo0 appears here; depending on your hardware, ed0
>> may be something else, or there may be multiple additional interfaces.
>
> This solution worked. Thanks a lot.
>
> Is there a location where this and other installation problems are
> documented. I would rather not bother anyone in the future if there is a
> document that I can read instead.

This one was in the ERRATA file on the ftp site.  I'm offline now, so
I can't point to the URL, but you should find it via
http://www.FreeBSD.org.

Greg
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