On May 3, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi, > When I restart NFS with > > > /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart > > > I see these messages in syslog: > > May 3 13:57:15 server mountd[928]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. > May 3 13:57:15 serverkernel: [82562.372930] nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache > May 3 13:57:16 serverkernel: [82563.499249] svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97). > May 3 13:57:16 serverkernel: [82563.501211] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory > May 3 13:57:16 serverkernel: [82563.501246] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period > > > How can I fix that failure? IIRC, that usually means the kernel has attempted to register an IPv6 listener with the local portmapper, which doesn't support IPv6. The message was removed in a later kernel. To be sure it's harmless, after NFSD is running, verify that lockd is registered by running "rpcinfo -p" on your server. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- 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