NFS will not start

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Marcus wrote:

> After my new 7.10 installation nfs was not installed. When I
> install it manually, both nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server hang
> for minutes.
> 
> They both eventually report [OK], but are not running. They do
> the same during a reboot.

Are there any messages reported to /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages?

> Could somebody post a working /etc/exports file. The file was
> originally empty, except for comments. The /etc/hosts.allow and
> /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.deny would also help.

Would you post yours and we might spot what's wrong?

> The installation produced a red screen so I'm stuggling to get
> a working system. So far it's everything but easy, and I've
> been using Ubuntu, Debian & Co for several years now.

Was there a message written on the red screen?  Care to divulge it?

Gavin