NFS server not available - Something missing?

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blueh2o

I'm trying to export a directory from a FreeBSD box to a Linux box, and I can't seem to get any of the NFS services to start. When I try to start nfs I get:

Code: 
nfsd: NFS server is not available

but I thought nfsd *was* the NFS server.. It's not available to itself?

Starting / stopping various services (nfsd, nfsserver, rpcbind, mountd) produces no output, and neither does "status." Something's missing but I'm not sure what.

System is running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #2: Sat Apr 25 01:52:46 UTC 2009
 
I have configured exports, yes. rpcbind is running, mountd and nfsd won't start.

Code: 
chronos# nfsd -u -t -n 4
nfsd: NFS server is not available
chronos# /etc/rc.d/mountd onereload
mountd not running? (check /var/run/mountd.pid).
chronos# /etc/rc.d/mountd start
chronos# /etc/rc.d/mountd onereload
mountd not running? (check /var/run/mountd.pid).
chronos# mountd -r
mountd: NFS server is not available or loadable

/var/run/mountd.pid, rpcbind.lock, and rpcbind.sock are present and 0 bytes.

I have in rc.conf:

Code: 
rpcbind_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
mountd_flags="-r"

This is a very minimal installation, I wonder if there could be some package missing?
 
blueh2o said:
This is a very minimal installation, I wonder if there could be some package missing?
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It's all part of the base OS.

Have a look in /var/log/messages. There may be some clues as to why it's not working.
 
I have:
Code: 
Jun  6 11:43:51 chronos root: /etc/rc.d/nfsserver: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module nfsserver
Jun  6 11:43:52 chronos kernel: kldload: /boot/kernel/kernel.orig: Unsupported file type
Jun  6 11:43:52 chronos root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Unable to force mountd. It may already be running.
Why should it be doing anything with kernel.orig, anyway?
 
Did you add things to /boot/loader.conf? Or edited /boot/defaults/loader.conf?
 
/boot/loader.conf:
Code: 
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
console="comconsole"
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
In /boot/defaults/loader.conf there was
Code: 
nfsserver_load="NO"
and I changed this to YES but it was no help.

Yes, this is a custom kernel with precision timing compiled in for NTP. But I certainly didn't remove any code for nfs!
 
OK, so I got the mount to work. Everything seems to come down to this: kldload can't load module nfsserver. So I tried going in to /boot/kernel and run kldload nfsserver.ko - that worked. then re-start nfsserver mountd, etc. Now I am able to export things. So can someone explain to me why nfsserver.ko isn't being loaded automatically?
 
blueh2o said:
In /boot/defaults/loader.conf there was
Code: 
nfsserver_load="NO"
and I changed this to YES but it was no help.
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NEVER edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf!
That was the reason I asked about it, as it's possible module_path was changed.
 
Yeah yeah yeah.. don't edit it I know.. I'm getting desperate. So, module_path is /boot/modules, which is an empty directory. Man page says:

Code: 
FILES
     /boot/kernel  directory containing loadable modules.  Modules must have
                   an extension of .ko.
So why is it set to /boot/modules? And why does kldload nfsserver find nothing while kldload nfsserver.ko works fine? Would anyone care to explain that?
 
OK so, I'll try to do this better..

kldconfig(8) says:

Code: 
FILES
     /boot/kernel, /boot/modules, /modules
             The default module search path used by the kernel.
and kldconfig -r returns
Code: 
/boot/kernel;/boot/modules
so why isn't /boot/kernel/nfsserver.ko getting located?

Wow, it took me 10 times as long to write that, please tell me I did OK?
 
So, it appears the module became corrupted somehow. So far it's the only one I've found, but I re-compiled it and re-installed it, and now it is loading at boot.
 
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