NFS stopped working

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 09:46 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> My laptop can no longer mount the NFS share on my server. 
> 
> jhubbard at jhubbard-laptop:~$sudo mount everest:/srv/files/media /mnt/media
> mount.nfs: mount to NFS server 'everest' failed: RPC Error: Program not 
> registered

Sounds like rpc.mountd is not running on the server.  Run:

rpcinfo -p

on the server and make sure lines like:

    100005    1   udp   1023  mountd
    100005    3   udp   1023  mountd
    100005    1   tcp   1019  mountd
    100005    3   tcp   1019  mountd

show up.  You may have to restart the kernel NFS services:

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server.  I am assuming you have an Ubuntu
server with the kernel NFS daemon support.
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