I cleanly installed etch on an old PC. And NFS didn’t work. Now it looks working but I don’t know why.

I have an old PC given by a friend. And I installed Debian etch 4.0 via network. I installed NFS server with postgresql 7.4 . I wanted the NFS server and not postgresql . But the NFS server didn’t work even with these lines.

# /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart
# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

When I tried to mount, it says:

mount.nfs: mount to NFS server ‘rpcbind’ failed: RPC Error: Program not registered
mount.nfs: internal error

This command has to show lines with “nfd” and ones with “mountd” if NFS works. But no in the fact.

# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100021 1 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100024 1 udp 2055 status
100024 1 tcp 4804 status

The selection of postgresql doesn’t have other reasons than I don’t use it. But after I commanded

# /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 stop
# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon….
Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsd mountd.
garlic:~# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100021 1 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 2048 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 2571 nlockmgr
100024 1 udp 2055 status
100024 1 tcp 4804 status
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100003 4 udp 2049 nfs
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 4 tcp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 888 mountd
100005 1 tcp 891 mountd
100005 2 udp 888 mountd
100005 2 tcp 891 mountd
100005 3 udp 888 mountd
100005 3 tcp 891 mountd

the NFS server started to work. And I could start postgresql without stopping the NFS server, too.
But I reinstalled postgresql .

# aptitude remove postgresql
# dpkg –purge postgresql-7.4

It removed also openssl and ssl-cert . So I commanded these two.

aptitude install ssl-cert openssl
aptitude install postgresql

Restarting the PC, the NFS server works.