cannot mount NFS share, portmap problems, what todo?

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I want to map an NFS share from a remote server to a local CentOS 5.4 server, but have a problem with portmap:

root@mercury:[~]$ service portmap restart

pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer

Stopping portmap:                                          [FAILED]

Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ]

root@mercury:[~]$ service portmap status

portmap dead but subsys locked

root@mercury:[~]$

What is "subsys", and how do I "unlock it"?

/var/log/messages gives me this:

Feb  3 13:44:23 mercury portmap[2221]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use

Which address is it referring to? Portmap isn't running so I don't see how it can be in use. Or should I be looking for the problem elsewhere? 

Google search results sugested opening port 111 in the firewall, which I have, but still get the error. And I cannot, at any costs, reboot this server. So, is there a way to fix this?

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Rudi Ahlers
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