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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:09:12 MST
From:      "Michael Williams" <mjwab@hotmail.com>
To:        grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problem Resolved: Re: NFS server problems
Message-ID:  <19991201020913.77863.qmail@hotmail.com>

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>From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
>Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
>To: Michael Williams <mjwab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,    
>     Majid Almassari <majid@ibroadcast.net>
>Subject: Re: NFS server problems
>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:37:14 -0500
>
>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.
>
>Greg
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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.

thanks

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