mount: RPC: Program not registered

Had problems one time where my network servers did not want to nfs mount shares on my main file server. When mount was run the following message appeared:

mount: RPC: Program not registered

After some searching in the google archives I found this:

check your local rpc services:

rpcinfo -p

on a debian 3 nfs client you should see something like:
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100021 1 udp 1024 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 1024 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 1024 nlockmgr
100024 1 udp 1025 status
100024 1 tcp 1025 status
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 1026 mountd
100005 1 tcp 1026 mountd
100005 2 udp 1026 mountd
100005 2 tcp 1026 mountd
100005 3 udp 1026 mountd
100005 3 tcp 1026 mountd

then do the same on the server, you should see something similar. if you are not I recommend shutting down all nfs and rpc services (/etc/init.d/nfs-common stop), then start portmap, and restart nfs-common, and run rpcinfo -p see if they show up, if they still don’t, then check to be sure theres no firewall on the local machine that would block connections, and stop all the services again including portmap and check netstat to be sure the socket is closed (netstat -an | grep 111 should come back with nothing) and try again ..

If it still doesn’t work do the same to the server.

Of course my commands didn’t exactly match. In slackware the rpc commands are in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. I just killed all the rpc processes and re-ran rc.inet2. Now it works like a champ.

Rosie scared of Christians

Not sure how I missed this, but a couple of weeks ago on the View, new host Rosie O’Donnell addressed the threat of Radical Christians.

Rosie thinks that

Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.

What???? OK, so she’s probably upset that she can’t marry her girlfriend, but opposing Gay Marriage is a long way from bombing, riots and murder.

Rosie went on to add

“…we are bombing innocent people in other countries. True or false?”

So she is holding the Radical Chrisitian community responsible for Afghanistan and Iraq? This is not just wrong, it’s delusional. It is a FACT that the vast majority congress, liberals and conservative, have repeatedly supported the war effort. In our last presidential election, John Kerry, who was definitely NOT supported by the christian community, did not ONCE come out and publicly promise to end the war. He danced around the issue like a little girl, critizing President Bush’s actions, but offering no real alternative.

Since it’s beginning, the majority of Americans (religious or not) have to some degree supported the war. Anti-war efforts have been limited to people like Cindy Sheehan who are on the fringe of society. Few have had the conviction to speak out against it publicly like Sheehan has, and most of them have been ridiculed. O’Donnell’s attempt to blame Radical Christians for bombing Iraq is just a pathetic attempt to rewrite history, place blame on a group she dosen’t personally like and associate that group with Muslim terrorists.

Chinese Amusement Park

This post is for John (who just had a baby this week – Congratulations!!). Somehow I think the link to this abandoned Chinese theme park would appeal to his sense of humor.

Once upon a time in a land called Xi Pu, just west of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in the People’s Republic of China, there was a tourist theme park… The World Landscape Park. As a business venture it failed, and today the park lies abandoned and decaying. Personally, I think it’s a lot more interesting this way than it could ever possibly have been when it was open.

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Extreme Ironing

Mohammed’s head on a plate

Earlier this week, Berlin’s German Opera removed an interpretation of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” from it’s schedule due to fear of Islamic attacks on this opera. The reason for these fears, the closing scene of the opera depicts the decapitated heads of Jesus Christ, Buddha, the Greek god Poseidon and, of course, Mohammed.

Now, as a Christian, I personally find the idea of this ending distasteful, offensive and perhaps even blasphemous, but I’m not going to attack the Opera to stop it. In fact, I think they should continue with the show. As long as I don’t have to support it, they should be able produce anything they want. I’m not going to attack the Opera, or Germany. To my knowledge no Christian groups have threatened to attack the Opera. In fact there is no concern of physical action by Buddhists or Poseidon worshipers either. Amazing how this so called “religion of peace” has everyone scared to death.

Fortunately, there is a voice of reason. German officials are encouraging the Opera to continue with their show. In fact, culture minister Bernd Neumann is quoted as saying:

“If worries about possible protests lead to self-censorship, that threatens democratic culture. It requires tolerance and courage from us all: tolerance in the face of uncomfortable opinions and courage in the face of controversy. You cannot solve problems by being silent.”