<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Emil Beinroth</b> <<a href="mailto:emilbeinroth@gmx.net">emilbeinroth@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote:<br>> -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/<br>[snip]<br>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old<br><br>That shouldn't be there. Normally, that directory is created and later <br>removed by /sbin/rc - which is run numerous times at boot. So this seems<br>really wrong.<br><br>I would suggest a clean cut by running `rm -fr /var/lib/init.d/`<br>and doing a reboot. Services won't be stopped, but your filesystems will <br>be remouted ro, so they should be fine. I've tested this on my box and<br>didn't have any problems.</blockquote><div><br>Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in inability<br>to start nfs automatically, or by hand. <br><br>I think it happens when booting, but I see this message in the system log:<br><br>Sep 23 21:12:01 tobey rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start nfs as rpc.statd could not start<br><br>Does that shed any light?<br><br>John <br><br></div><br></div><br>