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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:18:04 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de
To:        wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Subject:   Re: What's happened to nfsd and mountd?
Message-ID:  <199701081519.QAA03906@freebie.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701081440.JAA24321@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Jan 8, 97 09:40:51 am"

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Bill Paul writes:
> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, grog@lemis.de
> had to walk into mine and say:
>
>>  For the past 10 days or so, I haven't been able to build functional
>>  nfsd and mountd: they die with messages like these:
>>
>>  Jan  8 11:34:38 freebie mountd[1215]: Can't register mount
>>  Jan  8 11:35:16 freebie nfsd:[1261]: can't register with udp portmap
>
> I'm starting to think that this may be due to some changes Peter Wemm
> made to the RPC library a short while back (maybe ten days -- not exactly
> sure, but it sounds about right). Either that or somebody frobbed some
> headers somewhere that broke the library.

Well, I wasn't targeting Peter particularly, but I got the same sort
of impression.

> I assume you rebuilt the world and not just selected parts of the system,
> correct?

Correct.  In fact, my last message about swap leaks when doing a make
world was as a result of this problem.

>>  ktraces show that in each case a sendto fails:
>>
>>     577 mountd   CALL  sendto(0x5,0x465f0,0x38,0,0x46408,0x10)
>>     577 mountd   RET   sendto -1 errno 47 Address family not supported by protocol family
>>     577 mountd   CALL  write(0x2,0xefbfcb98,0x67)
>>     577 mountd   GIO   fd 2 wrote 103 bytes
>>         "Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Address family not supported by protocol family
>>
>>         "
>>  (don't ask me where stderr goes--I didn't see this message anywhere
>>  when I ran mountd).
>>
>>  This is apparently not a kernel problem: I can start the versions I
>>  compiled a month ago and which I still have on my laptop, and they run
>>  fine.  It's rather puzzling, though, because the source files haven't
>>  changed in that time.  I can only assume a library problem somewhere,
>>  but I don't have the time to follow it up.
>
> It's most likely something in the RPC library in libc, not in the programs.
> Rrrrr.... excuse me while I go fill up the gas tank on my LART.

Damn.  I don't understand that last sentence, but I don't want to look
silly, so I won't ask :-)

Greg




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