[QtMoko] Problem mounting a nfs directory

Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani giacomomariani at yahoo.it
Fri Jan 31 14:47:58 CET 2014


Hi Neil,
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:26:11 +0100 Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani
> <giacomomariani at yahoo.it> wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>     in order to compile something on my freerunner I'd like to use for
>>> that a nfs directory+chroot.
>>> [...]
>>> root at neo:/mnt/nfs# apt-get install nfs-common
>>> [...]
>>> Creating config file /etc/default/nfs-common with new version
>>> [FAIL] Starting NFS common utilities: statd idmapd failed!
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I googled and tried some stuff like "apt-get install portmap" or
>>> "apt-get install -f", but with no results.
>>> Do you have any suggestion?

I solved this editing /etc/default/nfs-common where I put:

NEED_IDMAPD="no"

> Hi Giaomo.
>
>  If you simples "cd /mnt/nfs", it should start working.
>  Your current directory is some directory on the root filesystem.
>  When you mount an NFS directory on top of that it doesn't change your
>  current directory.  However if you use the full name for the directory you
>  have mounted - "/mnt/nfs" - then that will lead you to the mounted
>  directory, not your current directory.
>  I hope that makes sense.

Thanks a lot, I did not realized that!

> NeilBrown

Giacomo

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