nfs client on ubuntu 9.10, /etc/init.d/nfs-common does not exist

Question

This seems like a trivial problem, but I can not find a solution for several days now.

I am trying to configure an nfs client on ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit). All the tutorials I've read say I need to restart a few things, such as portmap, and also nfs-common. Specifically:

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart

However, this file (/etc/init.d/nfs-common) does not exist.

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

returns "nfs-common is already the newest version."

When I try:

sudo service nfs restart

I get:

nfs: unrecognized service

What am I missing here?

Thank you to the kind soul who can help me with this.

Answer 1

OK - well. Things are working for me now. Here's what I did. I installed a fresh version Ubuntu and ran:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

Whatever client processes are needed started up just fine, and I am able to run mount without issue.

Here's the output:

dlumma@d-linux64-22:~$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common [sudo] password for dlumma: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libgssglue1 libnfsidmap2 librpcsecgss3 portmap The following NEW packages will be installed: libgssglue1 libnfsidmap2 librpcsecgss3 nfs-common portmap 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 356kB of archives. After this operation, 1,188kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libgssglue1 0.1-3 [24.2kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main libnfsidmap2 0.21-2 [31.0kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main librpcsecgss3 0.18-1 [35.8kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main portmap 6.0-10ubuntu2 [37.8kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main nfs-common 1:1.2.0-2ubuntu8 [227kB] Fetched 356kB in 2s (141kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libgssglue1. (Reading database ... 138745 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libgssglue1 (from .../libgssglue1_0.1-3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libnfsidmap2. Unpacking libnfsidmap2 (from .../libnfsidmap2_0.21-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package librpcsecgss3. Unpacking librpcsecgss3 (from .../librpcsecgss3_0.18-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package portmap. Unpacking portmap (from .../portmap_6.0-10ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package nfs-common. Unpacking nfs-common (from .../nfs-common_1%3a1.2.0-2ubuntu8_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Setting up libgssglue1 (0.1-3) ...

Setting up libnfsidmap2 (0.21-2) ...

Setting up librpcsecgss3 (0.18-1) ...

Setting up portmap (6.0-10ubuntu2) ... portmap start/running, process 2122

Setting up nfs-common (1:1.2.0-2ubuntu8) ...

Creating config file /etc/idmapd.conf with new version

Creating config file /etc/default/nfs-common with new version Adding system user statd' (UID 113) ... Adding new userstatd' (UID 113) with group nogroup' ... Not creating home directory/var/lib/nfs'. statd start/running, process 2343 gssd stop/waiting idmapd stop/pre-start, process 2396

Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Answer 2

I know its not an answer, but just to get attention, is there any way of getting this done without a reinstall? Thanks.