[PLUG] "Device is busy"

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Sep 2 05:15:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:36:21 -0700
David <dafr+plug at dafr.us> dijo:

>On 09/01/2014 09:18 PM, 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.
>
>Probably not the case here, but yes, NFS requires portmap to be
>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."
>
>To get the state of portmap you really wanted to use:
>      sudo service portmap status
>
>To see what portmap is doing, you want to use the 'rpcinfo' command.

Apparently on 14.04 (and some other distros) portmap is (part of?)
rpcbind. So on the laptop "rpcinfo" gives me a response, but sudo
service portmap status gives "unrecognized service."



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