Anne Wilson wrote: > do the trick, and I simply didn't know what else to try. In case I meet > this > again, can you please advise me? Are you doing anything with NFS? If not then turn off the nfs service, and the rpc services [root at dc1-rhel5-32build001:~]# chkconfig --list | grep "\(nfs\|rpc\)" nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rpcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcidmapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off rpcsvcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off If you are using NFS, then stop using it before restarting the services. nate