port mapper failure...

[Tezdread]

Hi, I've been having trouble for some time now and I've tried everything and don't know what I can do to try and get to source of the problem...

The problem looks like it might be the port mapper but I'm not sure? This is the error message I get when trying to contact the suse ftp server.

Could not mount the source medium.
mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive

I don't know if it's related but I have trouble accessing ftp files from my windows systems to?

Port mapper is running as default on port 111, I've stpped the service and still got the same error as when it is running

Anyone have any ideas?
Tezdread
"With every solution comes a new problem"

 

[Morsing]

FTP doesn't use the portmapper. What's this sorce medium it can't mount??

To me it looks like you have something on an NFS drive but the NFS service has died.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[Tezdread]

Thanks for your post it's the first reply I've hadin weeks and a few different forums...

I'm trying to upgrade SuSE 8.0 to 8.1 and get this message when I try to connect to the SuSE ftp site. I downloaded the whole of 8.1 (5.5gig) and specified the loaction on the HD but still got the same message?

Tezdread
"With every solution comes a new problem"

 

[Morsing]

Ok, so you've booted from the installation CD when this happens??

It looks like you've specified an NFS installation instead of an HD installation. Could that be it??
Why do you try to contact the SuSE server when you've downloaded the whole distro??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[Tezdread]

The whole story so far.

I bought SuSE 8.0 on CD/DVD installed it fine from the CD's it's up and running with no real problems, I connect to the internet and my windows systems connect through it fine, all other services are ok.

I then thought I'd upgrade it to 8.1, this I tried using Yast2. In Yast2 I specify system update and the first time I tried I specified the FTP details as instructed from the SuSE site.

ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/i386/8.1

and then when I clicked go I got the error message. I tried a few variations of the address bvut the same error.

At this point I thought there may be a problem connecting to the FTP server so I went there in Konqueror and manually downloaded all the required files (a couple of days)

Afer the download had completed I tried again but this time specified the location on the local disk and still got the same message? Tezdread
"With every solution comes a new problem"

 

[Morsing]

I can't remember how the SuSE installation goes but it definately looks like yast is trying to access an NFS server.

Can you track this?? Try 'netstat -finet' and 'tcpdump'/'iptraf' while running this.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[Tezdread]

ok I think I understood right, this is what I got...

First:-
# netstat -finet
netstat: invalid option -- f
usage: netstat [-veenNcCF] [<Af>] -r netstat {-V|--version|-h|--help}
netstat [-vnNcaeol] [<Socket> ...]
netstat { [-veenNac] -i | [-cnNe] -M | -s }

-r, --route display routing table
-i, --interfaces display interface table
-g, --groups display multicast group memberships
-s, --statistics display networking statistics (like SNMP)
-M, --masquerade display masqueraded connections

-v, --verbose be verbose
-n, --numeric don't resolve names
--numeric-hosts don't resolve host names
--numeric-ports don't resolve port names
--numeric-users don't resolve user names
-N, --symbolic resolve hardware names
-e, --extend display other/more information
-p, --programs display PID/Program name for sockets
-c, --continuous continuous listing

-l, --listening display listening server sockets
-a, --all, --listening display all sockets (default: connected)
-o, --timers display timers
-F, --fib display Forwarding Information Base (default)
-C, --cache display routing cache instead of FIB

<Socket>={-t|--tcp} {-u|--udp} {-w|--raw} {-x|--unix} --ax25 --ipx --netrom
<AF>=Use '-A <af>' or '--<af>'; default: inet
List of possible address families (which support routing):
inet (DARPA Internet) inet6 (IPv6) ax25 (AMPR AX.25)
netrom (AMPR NET/ROM) ipx (Novell IPX) ddp (Appletalk DDP)
x25 (CCITT X.25)


Second:-
# netstat tcpdump
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 Pluto.Dread:netbios-ssn 192.168.1.104:iad3 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Pluto.Dread:netbios-ssn 192.168.:cert-initiator ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 10 [ ] DGRAM 1413 /dev/log
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42220 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42219
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42217 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42216
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42214 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42213
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42128 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42127
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42125 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42124
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42109 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42108
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42105 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42104
unix 5 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42094 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42093
unix 58 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42091 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 42090
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41659 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41658
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41160 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41159
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41149 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41148
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41144 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41143
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41142 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41141
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41058 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41057
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41054 /tmp/mcop-root/Pluto_Dreadzone-108d-3e75f28f
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41053
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41031 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41030
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41017 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41016
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41015 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41014
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41012 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41011
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41007 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41006
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41001 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 41000
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40996 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40995
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40990 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40989
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40988 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40987
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40983 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40982
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40980 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40979
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40978 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40977
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40976 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40975
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40969 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40968
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40966 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40965
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40956 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40955
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40948 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40947
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40946 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40945
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40938 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40937
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40933 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40932
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40930 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40929
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40876 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40875
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40871 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40870
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40869 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40868
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40852 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40851
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40845 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40844
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40843 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40842
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40837 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40836
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40835 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40834
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40825 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40824
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40818 /tmp/.ICE-unix/4243
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40817
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40813 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40812
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40806 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40805
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40802 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40801
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40795 /tmp/ksocket-root/kdeinit-:0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40794
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40785 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40784
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40783 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40782
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40740 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40739
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40734 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40733
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40716 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40715
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40703 /tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop4219-1047917196
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40702
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40697
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40696
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40654 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 40653
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 40342
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 39793 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 39790
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 9516
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 4574
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3903
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 3872
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 2554
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 2078
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 2053

iptraf looked like it gave the same results as above. What should I be looking for? Tezdread
&quot;With every solution comes a new problem&quot;

 

[Morsing]

Oehmmmm... Sorry, I wasn't clear.

Linux netstat uses the 'A' option instead of 'f' as I said, so:
'netstat -A inet' is what I was looking for.

The tcpdump command is a standalone command. Has nothing to do with netstat. IF you're not used to read the output it's a bit difficult.

iptraf is also a standalone command. Just type 'iptraf' and <enter>. iptraf makes tcpdump look prettier. Can't remember the interface but it should be possible to see UDP or NFS packages.

Hope it helps.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support