strange nfs problem, need nfs guru

[Tom H]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, it looks like your kernel's failing this test in
>> "/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server":
>>
>> # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server
>> if ! grep -E -qs "[[:space:]]nfsd\$" /proc/filesystems; then
>> log_warning_msg "Not starting $DESC: no support in current kernel."
>>                         exit 0
>>                 fi
>
> I think you are on the right track here but you missed the finer detail
> of Gene's setup of using 10.04 with a recent kernel. 10.04 has a
> slightly different check in the mentioned script:
>
> # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server
> if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -qE ' nfsd_serv      ' /proc/kallsyms; then
>         log_warning_msg "Not starting $DESC: no support in current kernel."
>         exit 0
> fi

I didn't consider that the 10.04 sysvinit script would be different.
Good catch. :)