rpc.mountd inoperative

[tadevil]

I try export an NFS.
When i check the deamons, i see rpc.moutd inoperative.
i check the inittab and its ok
i try to stop the deamon and restart.
when i execute:
stopsrc -s rpc.mountd the system message is
0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, rpc.mountd, is currently inoperative.
when i execute:
startsrc -s rpc.mountd, the sys message is
0513-059 The rpc.mountd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 14720.
but when i execute:
lssrc -g nfs the result is:
Subsystem Group PID Status
biod nfs 6196 active
nfsd nfs 6712 active
rpc.statd nfs 3226 active
rpc.lockd nfs 6470 active
rpc.mountd nfs inoperative

i need this deamon to export an nfs ?
any idea ?
i need NIS to export an nfs?

please help me!

regards,
tad devil

 

[cspilman]

What is your oslevel?

 

[PSD]

tad devil,

This sometimes happens if a daemon has been started via command line execution i.e.

/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd > /dev/null 2>&1

In this instance the service is nor registered with SRC and therefore lssrc -g nfs will show no PID for rpc.mountd. A reboot will sort it, or a kill -9 of the PID of the rogue rpc.mountd process. Then start it as normal through SRC.

You do need rpc.mountd on a NFS server : it answers client requests to mount a f/s. This is based on the f/s as listed in /etc/xtab.

Hope that helps

PSD

p.s. if this is not the case if may be a bug in the code - what oslevel and maintenance level are you in this instance?

 

[tadevil]

thank you for your answers.
I found any corrupted files.
the solution to my problem was the next:
stopsrc -g nfs
stopsrc -s portmap
cd /etc
rm -rf sm sm.bak state rmtab xtab
startsrc -s portmap
startsrc -g nfs
refresh -s inetd

thank you again and sorry for my english