{"id":3226,"date":"2014-06-20T21:52:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2014-06-20T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:52:27","slug":"mount-nfs-rpc-statd-is-not-running-but-is-required-for-remotelocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote\tlocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">I think i found the answer; even though chkconfig reported that\r\n\"rpcbind\" was setup to start in run level 3, for some reason it was\r\nnot running.\r\n\r\nAfter this was started; I was able to mount the NFS share.\r\n\r\n# who -r\r\n         run-level 3  2012-02-16 19:19\r\n\r\n\r\n# chkconfig --list rpcbind\r\nrpcbind         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off\r\n\r\n\r\n# service rpcbind status\r\nrpcbind is stopped\r\n\r\n\r\n# service rpcbind start\r\nStarting rpcbind:                                          [  OK  ]\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\n\r\nOn 2\/17\/12, unix syzadmin &lt;unixsyzadmin gmail com&gt; wrote:\r\n&gt; Hi,\r\n&gt;\r\n&gt; I am getting the following error on RHEL6 for NFS mount. Please suggest.\r\n&gt;\r\n&gt; # more \/etc\/redhat-release\r\n&gt; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)\r\n&gt;\r\n&gt; # uname -r\r\n&gt; 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64\r\n&gt;\r\n&gt; # mount -t nfs nfs02:\/share0217 \/mnt\r\n&gt; mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.\r\n&gt; mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.\r\n&gt; mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified\r\n&gt;\r\n&gt; Thanks.\r\n&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think i found the answer; even though chkconfig reported that &#8220;rpcbind&#8221; was setup to start in run level 3, for some reason it was not running. After this was started; I was able to mount the NFS share. # who -r run-level 3 2012-02-16 19:19 # chkconfig &#8211;list rpcbind rpcbind 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}