From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: nfsd restart failures without /proc/fs/nfsd filesystem mounted Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:48:58 -0400 Message-ID: <47F2BBDA.3080207@RedHat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Anirban Sinha Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43112 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759592AbYDAWyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:54:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anirban Sinha wrote: > Hi: > > I am using a system where we do not use the /proc/nfs/nfsd filesystem (due to several reasons). I understand that without this filesystem, nfsutils does not use the "new cache" mechanism. However, a nfsd restart operation should still be functional. However, when I try doing this manually, I get the following error: > > root:my_node:/etc/rc.d/init.d# /sbin/service nfs restart > Shutting down NFS mountd: [ OK ] > Shutting down NFS daemon: [FAILED] > Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ] > Starting NFS services: [ OK ] > Starting NFS daemon: [FAILED] > Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ] This seems to work with both a 2.6.18 kernel (using nfs-utils-1.0.9) and a 2.6.25 kernel (using nfs-utils-1.1.2-1). What version of nfs-utils are you using? > I am using kernel version 2.6.17.7. This is a pretty old kernel... any chance of upgrading it? steved.