NFS Installed But Not Running

[hidarikiki]

I have installed Fedora 14 on a Dell laptop which I am using for a host to an embedded board. I need to get NFS working so that the board can mount the file system. I installed NFS using the command su -c 'yum -y install nfs-utils system-config-nfs'. I think this went well. I confirmed this with rpm -q nfs-utils and it prints back nfs-utils-1.2.5-5.fc16.i686, so I think it is OK. So far so good. For the other package I get system-config-nfs-1.3.51-2.fc15.noarch.

I set up an exports file in /etc.

Next I tried to use the NFS by typing su -c 'service nfs restart' and I get "Failed to issue method call: Unit nfs.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status nfs.service' for details.

systemctl status nfs.service returns " Loaded: error (Reason: No suh file or directory) Active: inactive (dead). So it looks to me like it is not running at all. I have also tried start and stop. Start does the same thing, interestingly stop seems to at least hit a valid call.

I also tried re-installing the NFS utilities and I get the same thing. Running install again returns "Nothing to do".

I got most of this information from this page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Admini...uide_Draft/NFS which seems like it should be a reliable source of information.

At this point, I am pretty much out of ideas. If I could fix this that would be great. If not, then I'm thinking of trashing this version of Fedora and going with a later one. Got any ideas?

Thanks!

[marko]

It says "no such file or directory" because the nfs service is called "nfs-server.service"

systemctl enable nfs-server.service
systemctl start nfs-server.service

A good way to see the listing of all the possible systemd unit names is to run:

systemctl -a list-units --full

ps. you can also still use the old style 'service' command but just use the new name:

example:

service nfs-server status

[stevea]

You need to have rpcbind service running.
Can you post your /etc/exports ?

Are you sure that's F14 ? Your system is using systemd and there is no /lib/systemd/system/nfs.service

What does this get you ? (as root)
systemctl enable nfs-server.service
systemctl start nfs-server.service

[hidarikiki]

First of all, thank you marko and stevea. NFS is running. The root file system is still not being mounted, but at least one problem has been cleared.

systemctl enable nfs-server.service and systemctl start nfs-server.service silently return. status nfs-server.service shows that NFS is running - active (running) is printed in green.

By looking at /etc/redhat-release I have determined that I am running Fedora 16. Seems like a key piece of informations. Oops.

Here is my /etc/exports (minus comments)

/home/shawn *(rw,sync, no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)

There target is configured to boot from /home/target_fs. There is a link home/target_fs -> /home/shawn/target_fs.

Originally, I looked into rpcbind as the source of my problem, but found the more basic problem of no NFS. Probably it is not running.

I have disabled the firewall and SELinux.

---------- Post added at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:46 AM ----------

It mounts the root file system from the host!

Getting NFS running was important. I fiddled with the cable and it works now.

Thanks again!