[CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

Thu Dec 11 23:29:47 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>


On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:46 -0800, MHR wrote:
> <snip>

> [mrichter at swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain
> ::1     localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.9.225   swordfish swordfish.sjhtca.com
> 192.168.9.92    t-mrichter-08 t-mrichter-08.sjhtca.com

/etc/hosts permissions OK? I ask because it should be worl-readable
and you sudo'd it.

> <snip>

> During startup now, the only process that fails is NFS statd, which
> probably fits right into the above, but I know zip about this area.

IIRC (it's been a long time), the RPC stuff needs to be running for nfs
locks, status, etc. Are they? I can't confirm this because I don't have
any nfs stuff running.

But I don't recall whether server/clioent needs any/all on one or both.

Anyway, that and portmap? Not sure. /etc/hosts/{deny,allow} come into
play if portmap is in use.

I don't recall dinking with the nfs service, so I ps'd it.

rpc       2284     1  0 05:36 ?        00:00:00 portmap
rpcuser   2310     1  0 05:36 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
root      2356     1  0 05:36 ?        00:00:00 rpc.idmapd

Maybe that gives a clue?

Showmounts might help you out (server side only?).

> 
> Any suggestions?  This wasn't happening before, and it doesn't happen
> on my backup machine at all (surprise!).


> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
-- 
Bill