nfssvc: Permission denied

Antoine Jacoutot

author

2002-11-15 14:20 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi, =20
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I'm using NFS under Gentoo Linux with kernel-2.4.19.=20
When starting nfs server with nfs init script (from nfs-utils), I get the=
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following message: =20
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/etc/init.d/nfs start =20
[ok ] * Starting NFS statd... =20
[ ok ] * Starting NFS rquotad... =20
[ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon... =20
nfssvc: Permission denied =20
* Error starting NFS daemon =20
[ !! ] =20
* Starting NFS mountd... =20
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The modules are correctly loaded: =20
nfsd 61136 0 (autoclean) =20
lockd 44080 0 (autoclean) [nfsd] =20
sunrpc 60796 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] =20
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This error is happening on all my servers, whether the nfs is user-space = =20
or kernel-space. =20
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There's nothing in the logs except someting about the portmapper (in=20 auth.log): =20
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[29402]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs): = =20
request from unprivileged port =20
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[21158]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to unset(nfs)= : =20
request from unprivileged port =20
Oct 7 07:04:40 srv01 portmap[1765]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs):=20 request =20
from unprivileged port =20
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Portmap is running and I have nfs-utils-0.3.3-r1.=20
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Thanks in advance if you have any clue.=20
I've search Google and didn't find anything usefull (this errors appears = to=20
happen on old Linux kernels, but I'm using the lastest stable).=20 =20
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Gentoo Linux=20
[email protected]=20
http://www.lphp.org=20
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Neil Brown

2002-11-19 04:47 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 11 lines · On Friday November 15, [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
I'm using NFS under Gentoo Linux with kernel-2.4.19.
When starting nfs server with nfs init script (from nfs-utils), I get the following message:
/etc/init.d/nfs start
[ok ] * Starting NFS statd...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS rquotad...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon...
nfssvc: Permission denied

It looks like you are not running this as root. You need to.

NeilBrown

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* Error starting NFS daemon
[ !! ]
* Starting NFS mountd...
The modules are correctly loaded:
nfsd 61136 0 (autoclean)
lockd 44080 0 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60796 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
This error is happening on all my servers, whether the nfs is user-space or kernel-space.
There's nothing in the logs except someting about the portmapper (in auth.log):
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[29402]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs):
request from unprivileged port
Oct 7 07:03:09 srv01 portmap[21158]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to unset(nfs):
request from unprivileged port
Oct 7 07:04:40 srv01 portmap[1765]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to set(nfs):
request
from unprivileged port

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Portmap is running and I have nfs-utils-0.3.3-r1.
Thanks in advance if you have any clue.
I've search Google and didn't find anything usefull (this errors appears to happen on old Linux kernels, but I'm using the lastest stable).
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Gentoo Linux 
[email protected] 
http://www.lphp.org 
 
 
 


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Antoine Jacoutot

author

2002-11-19 08:40 UTC #2 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · Neil Brown

Quoted 4 lines · On Friday November 15, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I'm using NFS under Gentoo Linux with kernel-2.4.19.
When starting nfs server with nfs init script (from nfs-utils), I get=

the

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Quoted 7 lines
following message:
/etc/init.d/nfs start
[ok ] * Starting NFS statd...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS rquotad...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon...
nfssvc: Permission denied
It looks like you are not running this as root. You need to.

I am running is as root !
Besides, it works, but after 7 or 8 times restarting the service. This is=
very=20
strange.

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Neil Brown

2002-11-19 22:23 UTC #3 lore raw

Quoted 14 lines · On Tuesday November 19, [email protected] wrote:

Quoted 13 lines · Neil Brown
Quoted 11 lines · On Friday November 15, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I'm using NFS under Gentoo Linux with kernel-2.4.19.
When starting nfs server with nfs init script (from nfs-utils), I get the following message:
/etc/init.d/nfs start
[ok ] * Starting NFS statd...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS rquotad...
[ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon...
nfssvc: Permission denied

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Quoted 2 lines
It looks like you are not running this as root. You need to.
I am running is as root !
Besides, it works, but after 7 or 8 times restarting the service. This is very strange.

Strange indeed.
The only time that nfsd should give this message is
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {

Maybe if you
sh -x /etc/init.d/nfs start

and double check which program is producing the error, and then
strace ....
that program.

NeilBrown

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