Paul Collins wrote: > Maria McKinley <maria@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Things work well up until it is time to mount the file system from >> fstab (ie, it mounts everything ro, makes it all the way through init >> and gives me a command prompt). The rw mount is not happening because >> rpc.statd never starts. If I try to start rpc.statd by hand, it >> complains that: Opening /var/run/rpc.statd.pid failed: Read-only file >> system. Since I am mounting the root directory over nfs, it makes sense >> for this file to be read-only until rpc.statd starts and Is there any >> way I can start statd without a pid file until I get the root file >> system mounted rw? Or something else to try? > > Try setting RAMRUN=yes in /etc/default/rcS, which will mount a tmpfs on > /var/run early in the boot process. I think I read something about > defaulting this to yes being a release goal for squeeze, so there may be > lenny packages that won't like this. > Thank you so much, that got rpc.statd started! NFS is still not behaving quite right, unfortunately. The /etc/fstab file: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> 10.208.108.18:/tftpboot/oscar / nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 10.208.108.18:/usr /usr nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 10.208.108.12:/home /home nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3,nosuid,nodev,async 0 0 10.208.108.12:/lab /lab nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3,nosuid,nodev 0 0 But, this is not how things are being mounted: root@oscar:/# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 19G 854M 17G 5% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 64K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm df: `/tftpboot': No such file or directory /dev/hda6 19G 854M 17G 5% /tmp /dev/hda7 33G 11G 21G 34% /usr /dev/hda2 19G 854M 17G 5% /var rpc_pipefs 19G 854M 17G 5% /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs 10.208.108.12:/lab 19G 854M 17G 5% /lab 10.208.108.12:/home 19G 854M 17G 5% /home For some reason, it looks like things are being mounted locally, even though they cannot be (no local hard drive). The /lab and /home directories are actually not being mounted, they are empty. And all of the directories appear to be read-only. If I try to remount, I get this: root@oscar:/# mount -a can't create lock file /etc/mtab~2820: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override) root@oscar:/# mount -an mount.nfs: /usr is busy or already mounted It does not appear to even try to remount /lab or /home, and / is still read only, even if I try to mount it by hand: root@oscar:/# mount.nfs 10.208.108.18:/tftpboot/oscar / -v -rw -n -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192 mount.nfs: trying 10.208.108.18 prog 100003 vers 3 prot TCP port 2049 mount.nfs: trying 10.208.108.18 prog 100005 vers 3 prot UDP port 44350 10.208.108.18:/tftpboot/oscar on / type nfs (rsize=8192,wsize=8192) root@oscar:/# touch /tmp/test touch: cannot touch `/tmp/test': Read-only file system Any ideas would be appreciated. cheers, maria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
