[CentOS] NFS mount problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 26 April 2008 10:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> This morning my laptop could not connect to the server by its fstab mounts.
>  I restarted nfs and restarted the network on the server, all without
> making any difference.  Restarting the network brought
>
> Bringing up interface borg2:  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> Error adding address 192.168.0.40 for eth0.
>
> but ifconfig shows the correct address for eth0.
>
> What else should I look for?
>
I presume these lines are relevant -

Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup 
failed: No such process
Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup 
failed: No such process
Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed 
for .directory

What is the cause of this?  Thanks

Anne