# NFS client issue SLES11 **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Networking\ **Created:** [August 29, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-client-issue-sles11/21944 "2011-08-29T10:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-client-issue-sles11/21944/1 "2011-08-29T10:56:02Z")
Hi all, I am trying to mount an NFS filesystem hosted by Celerra on our Linux system - OS: SLES11 SP1 I get the following error: “mount.nfs: mount to NFS server ‘x.x.x.x:/sapextract’ failed: RPC Error: Program not registered” Following is the output while checking nfs, rpcbind and portmap services: /etc/init.d/nfs status Checking for mounted nfs shares (from /etc/fstab): unused /etc/init.d/rpcbind status Checking for service rpcbind running /etc/init.d/portmap status -bash: /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directory Is there any specific configuration for SLES11 SP1 for NFS client? NFS client on SLES10 was pretty staright forward Thanks in advance Shilpa ## – sakula sakula’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=44493](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=44493) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-client-issue-sles11/21944/2 "2011-08-29T23:26:02Z")
Your error “RPC Error: Program not registered” means the client asked the server for some service but the server side says that service is not running. There is a small chance that SLES11 SP1 is looking for a version of a service, or a transport (TCP vs UDP) that is different that what SLES10 asked for by default, but it is also likely that some daemon has failed on the Celerra side. Have the client do: rpcinfo -p \ and make sure that the list which comes back includes all 5 services involved with NFS usage: portmapper, mountd, nfs, lock manager, status. If one of these is missing (or if you get the same rpc error) then something is wrong on the Celerra side. ## – dpartrid dpartrid’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=18260](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=18260) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-client-issue-sles11/21944/3 "2011-09-03T13:16:02Z")
Hi, Thanks a lot for the reply. We have other clients (SLES10 SP2) that mount NFS filesystems from Celerra without any issues. The issue happens only with this particular host running SLES11 SP1. Following is the output of rpcinfo on the SLES11 client rpcinfo -p x.x.x.x program vers proto port service 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100024 1 udp 32768 status 100024 1 tcp 32768 status 706000 1 udp 956 707000 1 udp 32829 I feel some configuration/service particular to SLES11 is missing on the client side. Please advise ## – sakula sakula’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=44493](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=44493) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-client-issue-sles11/21944/4 "2011-09-08T00:06:02Z")
The output you gave from rpcinfo -p is either not for the Celerra NFS server or the Celerra server has serious problems. That output looks more like the client’s own information. What address did you put in as the x.x.x.x? As stated in my original reply, that was to be the ip address of the Celerra. You can _run_ the command from the client, but it is to point to the Celerra’s address. If that is really the Celerra’s information, then it is not even successfully running an NFS daemon, nor a mount daemon, nor NFS lock manager daemon. All of which should be running if the Celerra is an NFS server. Indeed, your error says, “mount.nfs: mount to NFS server ‘x.x.x.x:/sapextract’ failed: RPC Error: Program not registered” and according to the rpcinfo list, that is true: The mount daemon is not registered (running) on your target. So maybe your x.x.x.x was not correct, or maybe there is a duplicate IP address on the network so you’re not reaching the host you think you are reaching. Do your other “working” clients get more services showing up when they do “rpcinfo -p x.x.x.x” with the same Celerra IP address? Are those other clients on the same subnet as the non-working client, or a different subnet? But putting aside the concern of whether the IP address is correct and whether services are registered correctly on the Celerra, and just considering other things that might be influencing your ability to mount on the client side: If the Celerra has more than one IP address bound to it, try pointing your client’s mount request to the other IP address. Try adding the parameters “proto=tcp,mountproto=tcp” to your client mount options. LAN trace analysis could be very helpful, especially if you analyzed simultaneous packet traces taken from sles 11 nfs cleint and celerra nfs server. If might also be useful to trace one of the working system examples for comparison. ## – dpartrid dpartrid’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=18260](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=18260) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=443836)