Although I already have the fix to this question, I'm doing a bit of detective work to find out why rpcbind breaks nfs when quotas are involved. Preliminary notes: 1. as of this posting my system if fully updated (and rebooted) 2. I have not made any changes to /etc/sysconfig/nfs 3. I'm running kernel 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i686.PAE 4. This is not a Virtual Machine. I had this in /etc/fstab. A VG with quotas enabled. "/dev/myVG/lv1 /mnt/p2 ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2" I removed the VG entirely, but did not disabled quotas in it before removal. I don't know why this would be the source of the problem. The rpcbind service is OK. # service rpcbind status rpcbind (pid 2977) is running... # rpcinfo -p program vers proto port service 100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 4 udp 111 portmapper 100000 3 udp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper When I try to start the NFS services I get a quotas related error message. # /etc/init.d/nfs start Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, udp). [FAILED] Starting NFS daemon: [FAILED] I attempt to turn quotas off in the system (none found). # quotaoff - -all - -off - -verbose Interestingly, when I "restart" as opposed to "start" the NFS services, there's an "OK" message in there, but NFS does not start. # /etc/init.d/nfs restart Shutting down NFS mountd: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS daemon: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS quotas: [FAILED] Shutting down NFS services: [FAILED] Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, udp).[FAILED] Starting NFS daemon: [FAILED] The fix is to add this line to /etc/hosts.allow: "rpcbind : 127.0.0.1 EXCEPT PARANOID" I got that from a somewhat related filed bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=358621 The issue was fixed a while ago in F9: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249199 See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173495 So, why am I seeing this in F11? How do I tell NFS that there are not quotas in any filesystem? I don't want to reinstall F11 all over just to find out this answer. If you have input, please share. thanks, ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines