My problem was with rpc processes failing during an
upgrade from OS4.1 to OS4.1.2.
Thanks to:
casper@fwi.uva.nl [Casper Dik]
fabrice@yosemite.atmos.ucla.edu [Fabrice Cuq]
pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com [Paul Henninger]
The answer was given by Casper Dik. He suggested -
>What happens is that the portmapper is confused about which machine
>it's on. For security reasons, the portmapper only accepts requests from
>the localmachine. To determine which machine is the local machine,
>it uses address of the first local interface it finds.
>If you configure a second interface after the starting of the
>portmapper, it may well become the interface that the system uses
>for communication with itself. In that case all further calls to
>the portmapper will be rejected. It is strange that keyserv (started
>after ypbind) could register.
The problem was due to the machine being a gateway,
and running 2 ifconfigs. I had added the second ifconfig
after the first one, in the default position given by the
rc.local that came with the upgrade.
I found that by moving the ifconfigs to the start of rc.local,
then the portmapper and subsequent rpc demons would work.
Wes Boudville
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