Re: Problems with portmap when turning off diskless computers

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Anyway, my last problem is that I don't seem to be
>able to shutdown
>my diskless computer properly.  The initial
>shutdown steps look fine,
>but these are approximately the latest messages I
>get on the screen:
>--------------------------------
>Shutting down lp: lpd
>Shutting down system loggers: syslogd
>klogdUnmounting remote filesystems
>.rm:/var/lock/subsys/nfsfs: Read-only file system
>Stopping portmap services: portmap
>rm:/var/lock/subsys/nfsfs/portmap: Read-only file
>system
>RPC:  sendmsg returned error 101
>----------------------------------
>
>And the last sentence is repeated continuously
>with approx. 4-5 seconds
>between each time the line is repeated.
>
>Has anyone seen this message ?   Is it safe to
>turn off
>the diskless computer anyway ?   (it seems the nfs
>file system *is*
>safely unmounted,  earlier in the lgout sequence I
>read:
>Shutting down NFS services:  rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd)
>
>What can I do  do avoid the RPC error messages ?

One of shutdown scripts probably disabled the network interface. Naturally
this makes the root FS unusable.  You can comment out this step.
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