[ILUG] RPC problems

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, p.slabiak at linux-services.org wrote:

> we have NFS-problems on our Linuxclients (SLES 9 SP1).There are 
> some erorr messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> RPC: error 512 connecting to server nvgm014
> RPC: error 512 connecting to server nvgm014
> RPC: error 512 connecting to server nvgm014
> RPC: error 512 connecting to server nvgm014
>
> nfs_statfs: statfs error = 512
>
> Do you have any ideas what does it mean ?

It means you're having NFS problems.

Try in turn, while each works:

- pinging the server "nvgm014"
- rpcinfo -p nvgm014
- showmount -e nvgm014

regards,
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