[PLUG] "Device is busy"

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Tue Sep 2 04:34:04 UTC 2014


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:57:18 -0700
> Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> dijo:
>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know why NFS is such a
>>> PITA?
>> Sometimes the portmap daemon stops running or is not started for
>> unknown reasons.  NFS uses this portmap daemon.
>> See if it is running.
> On the desktop "sudo service portmap start" resulted in "start: Job is
> already running: portmap." So I stopped it, which resulted in "portmap
> stop/waiting." I assumed this meant I had successfully stopped it, so
> then I entered the start command again, and this time it gave me
> "portmap start/running, process 28982." There was no change in the
> ability to see the share.
>
> On the laptop the same start command resulted in "portmap: unrecognized
> service." Trying just the command "portmap" gave me "command not found."
> _______________________________________________
>
NFS requires portmap running on both systems.



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