by Howdy all -
I dug around and couldn't find an answer to this very quickly, so if
this fix is common knowledge, please forgive me for wasting bandwidth.
If you compile a new kernel in RedHat 6 and at boot you get the error
nfssvc: function not implemented
then you need to recompile your kernel with "Prompt for Development
and/or incomplete code/drivers" (CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL) set to Yes.
I found this out after I compiled kernel 2.2.7 on RedHat 6.0 yesterday.
I am running a production box, so I am pretty conservative with my
kernel settings - no experimental settings enabled. I enabled all the
available NFS services (except emulate Sun NFS) in make xconfig. After
reboot, rpc.nfsd reported the error:
nfssvc: function not implemented
and my machine would not serve NFS. Very odd. I recompiled the kernel
twice, double checking that all the available NFS server settings there
were enabled. Still no dice. Then I finally found a posting by Dominik
Kubla on a European server
(http://www.veryComputer.com/) and I enabled
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. I then found the extra NFS server setting
available in network file systems. I enabled it, and now I have a happy
Linux box. I think that the new RH uses the new (experimental?) kernel
space NFS server instead of the user-space one, and this has to be
enabled in the kernel.
Side note - anyone have any opinions on using this "experimental"
setting in a production operating system?
I am posting this so that any other folks new to RH (I am an old
Slackware guy) who have a hard time fingering this out can find it with
a quick Dejanews search.
Regards,
Thomas Cameron, CNE, MCP, MCT
Three-Six* Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.veryComputer.com/*.com