Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

["John Blinka" <john.blinka@gmail.com>]

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On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <emilbeinroth@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote:
> >  -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/
> [snip]
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old
>
> That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later
> removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this seems
> really wrong.
>
> I would suggest a clean cut by running `rm -fr /var/lib/init.d/`
> and doing a reboot. Services won't be stopped, but your filesystems will
> be remouted ro, so they should be fine. I've tested this on my box and
> didn't have any problems.


Did as you suggested.  softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability
to start nfs automatically, or by hand.

I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log:

Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR:  cannot start nfs as
rpc.statdcould not start

Does that shed any light?

John

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